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Book SynopsisFormerly 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Liz Wells, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Nicos PhilippouThe Political Gaze: Memory, Politics & the Construction of National 2.Pride And Prejudice: Photography and Memory in Cyprus, Yiannis Toumazis3.“Imagining Cyprus”: Exhibitions of Cypriot Photography and their Reception in Greece, 1950-1980, Iro Katsaridou4.Developing identities: the history of the Turkish Cypriot photographic subject, Alev Adil5.Beyond Nostalgia, Stephanos StephanidesThe Colonial Gaze: Colonial Views, Postcolonial 6.John Thomson: Through Cyprus with a Camera, Between Beautifying and Bountiful Nature, Hercules Papaioannou7.The National Geographic and Half Oriental Cyprus, Nicos PhilippouThe Gendered Gaze: Framing Gender & Other 8.En-gendering Cypriots: from Colonial Images to Postcolonial Identities, Stavros Stavrou Karayanni 9.Tourists’ Photographic Conventions and the Rock of Aphrodite, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert10.The Photographic Pieta: A Model of Gender, Protest and Spatial - Temporal Dislocation in Modern Cyprus, Elizabeth Hoak-DoeringThe Art Gaze: Contemporary Art 11.Defying “Cypriotness” in the work of Haris Epaminonda and Christodoulos Panayiotou, Elena Stylianou12.Tracey Emin’s Photographs and Videos of Cyprus and Turkey, Jennifer Way13.Walking Narratives, Haris PellapaisiotisIndex
