Author: Alan Beukers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Haunting postcard images of the non-Western world from a century ago. The antique postcards depicted here were acquired in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Western tourists, business people, traders, and colonialists. The circumstances in which the cards were sent, and the details of those who sent them, are largely lost. Yet the audience for collecting them has enjoyed a spectacular growth in recent years and includes not only those with the collecting instinct or the desire to travel but also artists, photographic historians, fashion and jewelry specialists, and designers everywhere. Once it was believed that by taking someone's portrait you stole that person's soul. Here, the human subjects have a powerful presence because they express a deep-seated connection with the land and customs that gave them their identities. Their stories are implicit in their eyes, their costumes, and their postures. Reproduced with complete fidelity, these postcards take us on a magical journey across the world in five travelogues, depicting Asia, the Arab Lands, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. The book is introduced by one of the greatest and most successful travel writers of our time.
Exotic Postcards
Author: Alan Beukers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Haunting postcard images of the non-Western world from a century ago. The antique postcards depicted here were acquired in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Western tourists, business people, traders, and colonialists. The circumstances in which the cards were sent, and the details of those who sent them, are largely lost. Yet the audience for collecting them has enjoyed a spectacular growth in recent years and includes not only those with the collecting instinct or the desire to travel but also artists, photographic historians, fashion and jewelry specialists, and designers everywhere. Once it was believed that by taking someone's portrait you stole that person's soul. Here, the human subjects have a powerful presence because they express a deep-seated connection with the land and customs that gave them their identities. Their stories are implicit in their eyes, their costumes, and their postures. Reproduced with complete fidelity, these postcards take us on a magical journey across the world in five travelogues, depicting Asia, the Arab Lands, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. The book is introduced by one of the greatest and most successful travel writers of our time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Haunting postcard images of the non-Western world from a century ago. The antique postcards depicted here were acquired in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Western tourists, business people, traders, and colonialists. The circumstances in which the cards were sent, and the details of those who sent them, are largely lost. Yet the audience for collecting them has enjoyed a spectacular growth in recent years and includes not only those with the collecting instinct or the desire to travel but also artists, photographic historians, fashion and jewelry specialists, and designers everywhere. Once it was believed that by taking someone's portrait you stole that person's soul. Here, the human subjects have a powerful presence because they express a deep-seated connection with the land and customs that gave them their identities. Their stories are implicit in their eyes, their costumes, and their postures. Reproduced with complete fidelity, these postcards take us on a magical journey across the world in five travelogues, depicting Asia, the Arab Lands, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. The book is introduced by one of the greatest and most successful travel writers of our time.
The Colonial Harem
Author: Malek Alloula
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719019074
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719019074
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers
DELIVERING VIEWS
Author: Christraud M. Geary
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The authors discuss the differences between original photographs and their postcard equivalents, and they explore in detail common practices - such as artificial settings, costumes and props, colorization, and patronizing captions - that perpetuated racist, sexist, and romantic stereotypes.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The authors discuss the differences between original photographs and their postcard equivalents, and they explore in detail common practices - such as artificial settings, costumes and props, colorization, and patronizing captions - that perpetuated racist, sexist, and romantic stereotypes.
Guide to the Exhibited Series of Insects in the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History ...
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Postcards
Author: David Prochaska
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation.
Museums Journal
Author: Elijah Howarth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.
Economic Series
Author: British Museum (Natural History)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum ...
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Instructions for Collectors
Author: British Museum (Natural History)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoological specimens
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoological specimens
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description