Site-Seeing: Postcards of the Middle East and the Visual Construction of Place, 1890s to 1990s

场所感是如何在视觉上构建和传达的？某些地方或景观如何成为标志性景观，将“地点”转变为“景点”？在更广泛的政治、社会和经济变化的背景下，这些权威形象是如何演变的？这个项目考察了图片明信片作为20世纪视觉文化和现代场所制作的关键技术的作用。为了做到这一点，它借鉴了大英博物馆广泛收集的中东明信片，跨越殖民和后殖民时期，并分析了这些明信片作为视觉媒体和实物的生产和使用。

How is a sense of place visually constructed and communicated? How do certain views of places or landscapes become iconic, transforming 'sites' into 'sights'? How do these authoritative images evolve in the context of wider political, social and economic changes? This project examines the role of the picture postcard as a crucial technology of twentieth-century visual culture and modern place-making. To do so, it draws on the BM's expansive collection of postcards of the Middle East, spanning colonial and postcolonial periods, and analyses the production and use of these postcards both as visual media and as material objects.