Picturing Place
Photography and the Geographical Imagination
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2003
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781860647529
- Publish Date
- Apr 2003
- List Price
- $45
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781860647512
- Publish Date
- Apr 2003
- List Price
- $121
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Description
The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their communities, and the world beyond. The geographical imagination-the ability to know the world and situate oneself in space and time-fostered the expectations and applications of photographic technologies, and photographic technologies expresses the form and reach of the geographical imagination. This dialectic is the basis of this collection of intriguing essays, which explore the diverse ways in which the relationship manifested.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Joan Schwartz is Senior Photography Specialist at the National Archives of Canada.
James Ryan is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast.
