Main entry:

Osborne, Peter D. (Peter Desmond), 1947-

Title & Author:

Traveling light : photography, travel, and visual culture / Peter Osborne.

Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2000.

Description:

217 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Critical image

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Before photography -- 1. Camera portabilis: god, space and optics -- the visualisation of mobility before 1840 -- pt. II. The nineteenth century -- 2. The reverie of power: Victorian travel photography and the depiction of Egypt, the Holy Land and India -- 3. Worlds in a house: the consumption of travel photography in the Victorian middle-class home -- pt. III. Tourisms -- 4. Paradox amusements: tourism and the modern image -- 5. Travel products: promoting the tourist vision -- 6. Sabulous: the beach, the camera and social display -- 7. Fixing Arcadia: the photographic paradise -- pt. IV. Twentieth-century trails -- 8. Neither here nor there: photographers, exiles, the faces of strangers -- 9. Disappearance: twentieth-century photography, act and travelling.

Summary:

This is a thoroughly illustrated study of the close and continuous relationship between two of modern culture's central phenomena: the photographic image and travel. Contributing to the growing literature of travel and its representations, the book argues that from its beginnings, photography has played a constitutive role in the formation of travel -- comparable in importance to its part in the portrayal of social identity. It shows how, in turn, travel has shaped the use and language of all types of photographic production.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0719044006
9780719044007
0719044014 (pbk.)
9780719044014 (pbk.)

Subject:

Travel photography History.
Travel photography Philosophy.
Photographie de voyage Histoire.
Photographie de voyage Philosophie.
Travel photography.
Reise
Fotografie
Photographie.
1825-2000

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Critical image.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237714
Call No.: BIB 167563
Status: Available