The Well-travelled lens: studies in photography and cultural encounter, memory and identity

This collection of articles are for the most part derived from papers that were delivered as part of the ‘Photography: Theory, Practice, and Debate’ Research Seminar during 2007 at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies. The contributors include established academics and new scholars all offering fresh insights on text/image relations, analyses of hitherto under-explored projects by travelling photographers and writers, reflections and developments on the role of photographic theory, and the function of photographs themselves as objects that signify according to their use and context, historical moment, physical location and method of display.