Photography and Cyprus

Photography and Cyprus
Author: Liz Wells
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000213382

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.

Cyprus

Cyprus
Author: Reno Wideson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 493
Release: 1992
Genre: Cyprus
ISBN: 9789963595204

Photography and Cyprus

Photography and Cyprus
Author: Liz Wells
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 100021172X

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.

Contemporary Art from Cyprus

Contemporary Art from Cyprus
Author: Elena Stylianou
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 135019865X

To what extent does locality influence contemporary art? Can any particular artistic practices be defined as uniquely Cypriot? And does art from Cyprus transcend Western boundaries once it enters the global art scene? This volume uses Cyprus as a case study for the exploration of notions of identity, regionalism, and the global and local in contemporary art practice; it is not, therefore, a complete historiography of contemporary Cypriot art. Rather, this critical text provides a theoretical and historical framework that frames and contextualizes art practices from Cyprus, while always relating these back to the international art world. Numerous current and pressing issues-all relevant beyond Cyprus-are investigated in this book including, but not limited to, art as capital, the emergence of the “periphery”, the importance of thriving localities, issues of memory and memorialization, archaeology, artists' identities, conflict and politics, social engagement, gender politics, and such curatorial alternatives as artist-run spaces. In doing all of this, Contemporary Art from Cyprus not only bears on current and future art practices in this region but highlights the importance of Cypriot art in a global context too.

The Photography Book

The Photography Book
Author: Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1997-02-10
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0714836346

An introduction to 500 photographers from the mid-19th century to today.

Cyprus Remembered

Cyprus Remembered
Author: Reno Wideson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2010
Genre: Cyprus
ISBN: 9780956552105

'Cyprus Remembered' revisits the Cyprus of the 50's and early 60's. It presents an image of the life of the island as it was before the enormous changes brought on by the political and economic upheavals of the 70's and beyond and in particular the explosive expansion of the tourist industry and the transformation of the built environment.--Dust jacket.

Museums and Photography

Museums and Photography
Author: Elena Stylianou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317528964

Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types of museums—history, anthropology, art, ethnographic, and science museums – and to understand the changing role of photography in museums. Contributors explore the politics and poetics of displaying death, and more specifically, the role of photography in representing and interpreting this difficult topic. Working with nearly 20 researchers from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines, the editors critically engage the recent debate on the changing role of museums, exhibition meaning-making, and the nature of photography. They offer new ways for understanding representational practices in relation to contemporary visual culture. This book will appeal to researchers and museum professionals, inspiring new thinking about death and the role of photography in making sense of it.

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past
Author: Colin Sterling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2019-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 042964874X

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the domestic arena of the family album. Through original ethnographic and archival research, the book sheds new light on the role photography has played in the emergence, expansion, and articulation of heritage in diverse sociocultural contexts. Drawing on wide-ranging experience across the heritage sector and two international case studies – Angkor in Cambodia and the town of Famagusta, Cyprus – the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the role photography has played and continues to play in shaping experiences and conceptualisations of heritage. One of the core aims of the book is to problematise and potentially redirect the varied usages of photography within current practice, usages which remain woefully undertheorised, despite their often-central role in shaping heritage. Ultimately, by focusing attention on a hitherto underexamined aspect of the heritage phenomenon, namely its manifold interconnections with photography, this book provides fresh insight to the making and remaking of the past in the present, and the alternative heritages that might come into being around emergent photographic forms and approaches. Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past uses photography as a method of enquiry as well as a tool of documentation. It will be of interest to scholars and students of heritage, photography, anthropology, museology, public archaeology, and tourism. The book will also be a valuable resource for heritage practitioners working around the globe.

Photography of Victorian Scotland

Photography of Victorian Scotland
Author: Roddy Simpson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 074865464X

This is the first book to provide a full and coherent introduction to the photography of Victorian Scotland. The material has been structured and the topics organised, with appropriate illustrations, as both a readable narrative and a foundation text for