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Photography, humanitarianism, empire /

With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between peoples across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lydon, Jane, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Colección:Photography, history: history, photography.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Map of Australia
  • Introduction : photography, humanitarianism, empire
  • Blood : the nucleus of the native church
  • Veritable apollos : beauty, race and scientists
  • Blind spots or bearing witness : antislavery and frontier violence in Australia
  • Popularizing anthropology : Elsie Masson and Baldwin Spencer
  • A ray of special resemblance : H.G. Wells and colonial embarrassment
  • Happy families : UNESCO's human rights exhibition in Australia, 1951.