Picturing Place

Contents vi Figures vii Acknowledgements x Contributors xii Introduction: Photography and the Geographical Imagination 1 Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan PART I Picturing Place 19 1 La Mission Heliographique: Architectural Photography, Collective Memory and the Patrimony of France, 1851 21 M. Christine Boyer 2 Retracing the Outlines of Rome: Intertextuality and Imaginative Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Photographs 55 Maria Antonella Pelizzari 3 Visualizing Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the Grand Canyon 74 David E. Nye 4 Family as Place: Family Photograph Albums and the Domestication of Public and Private Space 96 Deborah Chambers PART II Framing the Nation 115 5 Picturing Nations: Landscape Photography and National Identity in Britain and Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 117 Jens Jager 6 Capturing and Losing the 'Lie of the Land': Railway Photography and Colonial Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa 141 Jeremy Foster 7 Constructing the State, Managing the Corporation, Transforming the Individual: Photography, Immigration and the Canadian National Railways, 1925-30 162 Brian S. Osbourne PART III Colonial Encounters 193 8 Emperors of the Gaze: Photographic Practices and Productions of Space in Egypt, 1839-1914 195 Derek Gregory 9 Mapping a Sacred Geography:Photographic Surveys by the Royal Engineers in the Holy Land, 1864-68 226 Kathleen Stewart Howe 10 Home and Empire:Photographs of British Families in the Lucknow Album 1856-57 243 Alison Blunt 11 Negotiating Spaces: Some Photographic Incidents in the Western Pacific, 1883-84 261 Elizabeth Edwards Epilogue 281 12 Wunderkammer to World Wide Web:Picturing Place in the Post-Photographic Era 283 William J. Mitchell Notes 305 Index 347