Optics of American Empire : James Ricalton and Stereoscopic ethnography in early twentieth century India, 1888-1907.
by
Winter, Mitchell Arthur.
Title
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Optics of American Empire : James Ricalton and Stereoscopic ethnography in early twentieth century India, 1888-1907.
Author
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Winter, Mitchell Arthur.
ISBN
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9780355865158
Personal Author
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Winter, Mitchell Arthur.
Publication Information
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Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018
Physical Description
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1 online resoruce (90 p.)
General Note
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05.
Advisers: Stacy Kamehiro; Maria Evangelatou.
Abstract
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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.
Local Note
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School code: 0036.
Subject Term
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Art history.
Cultural anthropology.
South Asian studies.
Electronic Access
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Added Corporate Author
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University of California, Santa Cruz. Visual Studies.
Thesis Note
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2018.
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