Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation, edited by Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan

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Notes

1. Edward W. Said, Orientalism (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978).

2. Malek Alloula, The Colonial Harem, trans. Myrna Godzich and Wlad Godzich (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986); Ariella Azoulay, The Civil Contract of Photography, trans. Rela Mazali and Ruvik Danieli (New York: Zone Books, 1986).

3. ‘Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science: An Interdisciplinary Conference’ (University of Edinburgh, 18–21 July 2007), www.geos.ed.ac.uk/geography/geog19c; Bruno Latour, Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987).

4. Jan Golinski, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2005), 11.

5. Golinksi, Making Natural Knowledge, 11.

6. Central to Latour's network theory is the idea of stable, portable data—termed ‘immutable and combinable mobiles’—which provide the links between different places and people. A nuanced interpretation of this concept is the notion of ‘boundary objects’, which are ‘both adaptable to different viewpoints and robust enough to maintain identity across them’—Susan L. Star and James R. Greisemer, ‘Institutional Ecology, “Translations” and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907–39’, Social Studies of Science 19 (1989): 387–420.

7. The most recent of these is Anne M. Lyden, A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014).