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Optics of American Empire : = James Ricalton and Stereoscopic Ethnography in Early Twentieth Century India, 1888-1907.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Optics of American Empire :/
Reminder of title:	James Ricalton and Stereoscopic Ethnography in Early Twentieth Century India, 1888-1907.
Author:	Winter, Mitchell Arthur.
Description:	1 online resource (90 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-05(E).
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355865158

Optics of American Empire : = James Ricalton and Stereoscopic Ethnography in Early Twentieth Century India, 1888-1907.
Winter, Mitchell Arthur.

Optics of American Empire :James Ricalton and Stereoscopic Ethnography in Early Twentieth Century India, 1888-1907. - 1 online resource (90 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

During the mid-nineteenth century, stereoscopy became a monumentally popular and heavily studied component of British and American optical science. James Ricalton (b. 1844-1929), an American photographer and traveler, utilized stereoscopy and stereography for the production of travel cards that displayed 'non-Western' locations and peoples. This thesis examines Ricalton's deployment of stereography and shows that Ricalton's brand of stereographic practice participates in contemporaneous ideological formations concerning social Darwinism, civilizationism, and American exceptionalism. I visually analyze fifteen of Ricalton's original 100 stereographic prints from India Through the Stereoscope: A Journey through Hindustan" (1900) to show that Ricalton's orientation towards the people and places he photographs is a complex negotiation of his own masculinity, narratives of American nationhood, and dominant ideologies of nineteenth century colonial apologism. I argue that Ricalton's usage of stereoscopy and stereography forms a 'hybridized' archive that does not fit into standard photographic typologies of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355865158Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180038
Art history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Optics of American Empire : = James Ricalton and Stereoscopic Ethnography in Early Twentieth Century India, 1888-1907.
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