Travelling Light. Photography, travel and visual culture.

Chapters :
PART I. Before photography. :
1. Camera portabilis: god, space and optics - the visualisation of mobility ;
PART II. The nineteenth century :
2. The reverie of power: Victorian travel photography and the depiction of Egypt, the Holy Land and India ;
3. Worlds in a house: the consumption of tracvel photography in the Victorian middle-class home ;
PART III. Tourisms :
4. Paradox amusements: tourism and the modern image ;
5. Travel products: promoting the tourist vision ;
6. Sabulous: the beach, the camera and social display ;
7. Fixing Arcadia: the photographic paradise ;
PART IV. Twentieth century trails :
8. Neither here nor there: photographers, exiles, the faces of strangers ;
9. Disappearance: 20th century photography, art and travelling ;
References ;
Index.