Publisher's Synopsis
A study of the close and continuous relationship between two of modern culture's central phenomena: the photographic image and travel. Contributing to the growing literature of travel and its representations, the book argues that from the beginnings, photography has played a constitutive role in the formation of travel - comparable in importance to its part in the potrayal of social idenity. It shows how, in turn, travel has shaped the use and language of all types of photographuc production.;The book's nine essays have a broad historical perspective and focus on and extensive range of photographs from the mid-19th century to the present. A multi-disciplinary approach draws on photographic and visual studies, cultural and media studies, gender and post-colonial studies and theories of travel, tourism and space.;"Travelling Light" includes discussion of: empire, religion, gender, and Victorian travel photography; the photographic identity of new tourism; the aesthetics and politics of photography, and new perceptions of travel and space from Cubism to postmodernism; the wired, the digital and the reported death of travel and the end of photography.
