The Geography Lesson: photographs and the construction of imaginative geographies

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
An 1851 stereoscopic daguerreotype (The Geography Lesson) frames this exploration of photography, travel and geography in the mid-nineteenth century. At a time when travel was embraced as a way of seeing and knowing the world, photographs offered a new means of acquiring, ordering and disseminating geographical information. The work of traveller-photographers is used to show how the views were employed to provide visual access to sites of travel. The historicity of photographic practice is demonstrated.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of historical geography, issn : 0305-7488, 1996, vol. 22, n°. 1, p. 16-45, Collation : Illustration

Date :
1996

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London ; New York, NY ; San Francisco, CA, Academic Press