Adams, Robert (Continued)
selected works, 18
social concerns, 16
Summer Nights,17
To Make it Home: Photographs of the American West,17
West from the Columbia,17
White Churches of the Plains,17
ADC,seeAnalog-to-digital converter
Aerial photography, 7, 20–22
‘‘Changing the Earth’’ series, 22
‘‘Earth from Above’’ series, 21
American Civil War, 20
Canadian government, 233
conception of, 20
days of Sumer, 20
development during Cold War, 21
digital technology, 22
ecological and conservation efforts, 21
fine-arts photography and, 22
further reading, 22
geometric disciplines and, 20
historical and research purposes, 21
history, 20
improvements, 20, 21
kite, 22
Middle Eastern archeological sites, 21
Midwest United States, 1590
nature photographers, 22
prime innovators, 21
relation between photographs and maps, 20
remote sensing, 22
satellite imagery, 21
scientific realm, 21
vantage points offered by skyscrapers, 22
war and, 20
Africa, Central and West, 27–30
anthropological studies, 27
‘‘civilized’’ vs. ‘‘savage’’, 28
colonial ethnography, 28
Congo expeditions, 28
contemporary artists, 28
Drummagazine, 28
European counterparts, 27
further reading, 28–30
government-sponsored projects, 28
growing middle class, 27
independent mass-media, 28
means of distributing ethnographic images, 28
national independence, 27
outdoor photography, 27
portrait photography, 27
postcards, 28
self-portraits, 27
spread of commercial studios, 27
surface adornment, 28
Africa, East Africa and Indian Ocean islands, 30–32
contributions of South Asian photographers, 31
daguerreotype, 31
early commercial studios, 31
exotic animal life, 30
famine of Ethiopia, 30
formal images for life passages, 31
further reading, 31, 32
history of photographic practices, 30
hunting with camera, 30identity photographs, 31
important studio photographers, 31
Madagascar’s first indigenous photographer, 31
Nairobi’s Camerapix agency, 30
official photography agencies, 31
photosafaris, 30
political role of photography, 30
racially-based distinctions between populations, 31
royal court photographers, 31
safaris and disasters, 30
wish fulfillment, 31
Africa, North, 32, 34
archives, 32
body at birth and death, 33
colonization, 32
commercial studios, 32
direct color autochrome plates, 33
dirty war, 32
further reading, 33–34
golden age for commercial photography, 32
image of Algerian women, 33
Koranic injunction against realistic images, 32
L’AlgO ̃rie Artistique et Pittoresque,33
Madonna of Benthala,32
Orientalist picturesque, 32
photographic history, 32
photojournalism of Algeria’s conflicts, 32
postcards, 33
Second World War, 33
surveillance images from secret police files, 32
tourism, 32
Africa, overview of, 23–26
affordability of photography, 25
agency photographers, 25
apartheid, 24
art world interest in African photography, 23
black South African life, 24
censorship, 25
colonialist life documented by Europeans, 23
Congo Free State, 24
cultural generalization, 23
documentation of political process, 25
Drum,24
establishment of colonial rule, 24
European racism, 24
evolution of Pan-African sensibility, 24
feminist methodologies to analyze photographs, 24
further reading, 25, 26
government assertion of authenticity, 25
history of photography in, 23
In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present,23
incorporation of photography into religious rituals, 23
inherited studio, 25
need for identity photos, 25
Nka: A Journal of Contemporary African Art,23
participation in image creation, 25
photographies, 23
portrait photography, 24
public attention in the West, 24
regional photographic practices, 25
The Short Century, 23, 24
South Africa’s best known photographers, 23
studio portraits, 25
‘‘tribal’’ Africans, 23
use of box cameras, 25INDEX
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