PHOTOGRAPHY CONSCRIPTED: HORACE VERNET, GERARD DE NERVAL AND MAXIME DU CAMP IN EGYPT (FRANCE).
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Title
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PHOTOGRAPHY CONSCRIPTED: HORACE VERNET, GERARD DE NERVAL AND MAXIME DU CAMP IN EGYPT (FRANCE).
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Identifier
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AAI8708273
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identifier
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8708273
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Creator
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BALLERINI, JULIA.
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Contributor
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Linda Nochlin
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Fine Arts
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Abstract
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This dissertation examines the first decade of travel photography through the study of three well-known artistic and literary figures who journeyed to Egypt with a camera from 1839 to 1850. Its emphasis is on their individual reactions within a network of socially constructed meanings surrounding both the "Orient" and the new photographic medium. The social, political, and intellectual climate of the times which prompted these ventures is explored in the light of the "subjectivity" of each of the three travelers. The concept of subjectivity is understood in conflict with the idea of sentimental meditation; rather it is seen as the locus of the unpredictable motion of the psyche as it is inscribed by the social process. The dissertation relies on the ways meanings have been assigned to the photographs, consciously or unconsciously, in the letters, journals, travel books, poetry, and fiction that surround them. By means of image and text the differing "views" of Egypt produced by Vernet, Nerval, and Du Camp are analyzed as products of their makers' particular sensibilities and their shared ideologies and circumstances.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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History of Art
