Haunting the Streets of Cairo
Visual Habits of the Biblical Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Holy Land Photography
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i2.4Keywords:
Photography, Visual Culture, Biblical ImaginationAbstract
This article examines connections between visual habits of American imperialism, photographic technology, and biblical imagination in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The author argues that visual habits of optical elision, or the learned technique of not-seeing photographic contemporaries in order to see instead photographic evidence of a biblical past, linked modes of biblical interpretation with forms of American imperialism. She also contends that halftone print technology introduced considerations of the relationship between images and text, providing silhouettes of theological developments at the end of the century that differentiate photography from prior modes of illustration.
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Jacobson, Matthew Frye. 2000. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917. New York: Hill and Wang.
Lee, James. 1896. “Introduction.” Self-Interpreting Bible, 4 vols. New York: R. S. Peal and J.A. Hill.
Marien, Mary Warner. 2006. Photography: A Cultural History. 2nd ed. London: Lawrence King Publishing.
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Published
2014-04-22
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How to Cite
Lindsey, R. (2014). Haunting the Streets of Cairo: Visual Habits of the Biblical Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Holy Land Photography. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 43(2), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i2.4
