Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place and Identity (Int. Lib. Of Modern And Contemporary Art Ser.)

Synopsis

Formerly a British colony, the island of Cyprus is now a divided country, where histories of political and cultural conflicts, as well as competing identities, are still contested. Cyprus provides the ideal case study for this innovative exploration, extensively illustrated, of how the practice of photography in relation to its political, cultural and economic contexts both contributes and responds to the formation of identity. Contributors from Cyprus, Greece, the UK and the USA, representing diverse disciplines, draw from photography theory, art history, anthropology and sociology to explore how the island and its people have been represented photographically. They reveal how the different gazes- colonial, political, gendered, and within art photography- contribute to the creation of individual and national identities and, by extension, to the creation and re-creation of imagery of Cyprus as place. While Photography and Cyprus focuses on one geographical and cultural territory, the questions this book asks and the themes and arguments it follows apply also to other places characterized by their colonial heritage. The intriguing example of Cyprus thus serves as a fitting test-ground for current debates relating to photography, place and identity.

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

288 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000213386

Related ISBNs:

9781780766539, 9781003103707, 9780367716578

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

11/30/20

Copyrighted By:

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Liz Wells, Nicos Philippou Copyright Individual Chapters

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Liz Wells

Edited by:

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert

Edited by:

Nicos Philippou