Constructing Modernity and Progress: The Imperializing Lens of an American Engineer in the Early Twentieth Century

Recent visual theory on the decolonization of the photographic frame offers an important alternative to thinking of photographs as artifacts of the past. Here, the authors build on Ariella Azoulay’s idea of ‘watching’ photographs—as opposed to ‘looking’—to restore and reinscribe links to the past in...

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Main Authors: Stefano Tijerina, Sonya de Laat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2018-06-01
Series:Iperstoria
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Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/263