Photography and the tsarist russian colonial Administration of turkestan: Designing the history and the place Between past and future
- № 1(31)2021
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Язык: английский
Аннотация
This article endeavours to frame the history of Turkestan photography within the context of the controversial hybrid “modernity” introduced to Central Asia in the course of its conquest by the Russian Empire. Specifically,analysis of various socio-political practices of photography is used to clarify the role of its history in: 1) the process of distributing ideas, equipment, technology and people; 2) the rational reshaping of the regional culture; 3) the establishment of relations of authority and subordination in a colonial setting. Another aim of the study is to
correlate the stages and nature of the development of photography in Turkestan with those in Europe, Russia,and neighbouring countries and regions, thus complementing the global history of photography with the lesser known history of photography in Turkestan. While not reducing the entire line of reasoning to the dualism between photography and power, this article attempts to show different levels of application of photography in creating the image of “Russian Turkestan” intended for both internal and external use.