The Imperial Gaze: Practices, Representations, and Identities in the Visual Archive
Edited by: Tim Allender , Sandra Camarda , Inés Dussel , Ian Grosvenor and Karin Priem
Publisher: De Gruyter
The Imperial Gaze: Practices, Representations, and Identities in the Visual Archive is a collection of essays by leading academics from around the world who study the colonial gaze in different empire settings. The key task undertaken by each author was to uncover new ways of looking at empire through the contemporaneous making and use of images, including photography. The essays in this volume uncover new geographies of colonial interaction, away from the simple binary of “colonizer” and “colonized”. They include: accounts of travel in empire and constructions of the exotic “other”; the projection of images that engage gender themes and Western religion; the archival building of colonial photographic imaging; imperial storytelling and a visual peering into colonial settings concerning problematic metropole-based philanthropy; and visual portrayals of first peoples who suffered and who were marginalized in colonial domains. This volume offers innovative vistas of empire that will enrich the work of scholars in this active academic field. They do this by providing vital cross-disciplinary alternative avenues of analysis based on the production and use of the image in imperial settings.
Chapter 18: The Decolonial Imperial Gaze: Recreating, Reappropriating and Reproducing Imperial Photographs in Contemporary Chinese Artistic Practice / Yining He
《帝国凝视：视觉档案中的实践、表征与身份》 (The Imperial Gaze: Practices, Representations, and Identities in the Visual Archive)
编者：蒂姆·阿伦德尔 (Tim Allender)、桑德拉·卡马达 (Sandra Camarda)、伊内斯·杜塞尔 (Inés Dussel)、伊恩·格罗夫纳 (Ian Grosvenor) 与 卡琳·普里姆 (Karin Priem)
《帝国凝视：视觉档案中的实践、表征与身份》是一部论文集，汇集了来自世界各地研究不同帝国背景下殖民凝视的顶尖学者的文章。每位作者承担的核心任务是，通过对当时图像（包括摄影）的制作与使用进行研究，揭示出审视帝国的新视角。
本书收录的论文揭示了殖民互动的新地理图景，摆脱了“殖民者”与“被殖民者”的简单二元对立。这些文章涵盖的主题包括：帝国旅行的记述以及对充满异国情调的“他者”的建构；涉及性别主题与西方宗教的图像投射；殖民摄影图像的档案建设；帝国叙事，以及对殖民环境中存在问题的、以宗主国为基础的慈善事业的视觉审视；以及对在殖民领域中遭受苦难和被边缘化的原住民的视觉描绘。
本书提供了关于帝国的创新视野，将极大地丰富这一活跃学术领域中学者的研究工作。这些文章立足于帝国环境中图像的生产与使用，提供了至关重要的、跨学科的替代性分析途径，从而实现了这一目标。