Disaster, human suffering and Colonial photography

灾难、人类苦难和殖民摄影

• 批准号: DP170100948
• 负责人: Prof Susanne Protschky
• 金额: $ 12.47万
• 依托单位: Deakin University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP170100948
• 关键词: Disaster; human; suffering; Colonial; photography

This project aims to investigate how photography shaped modern understandings of disaster. During the period modern European empires were at their most expansive, they became increasingly interventionist in indigenous environments and societies. The project will use rich but largely neglected sources from colonial Indonesia (c.1840-1950) to study how images of human suffering in different disaster contexts evolved since the invention of photography. Understanding how and why European expansion shaped modern ideas about disasters, and how photography has developed to communicate human suffering, is expected to benefit community and scholarly awareness of environmental disaster, war and their effects.

该项目旨在调查摄影如何塑造现代对灾难的理解。在现代欧洲帝国最扩张的时期，它们对本土环境和社会的干预越来越多。该项目将利用印度尼西亚殖民地（约 1840-1950 年）丰富但很大程度上被忽视的资料来研究自摄影发明以来不同灾难背景下人类苦难的图像如何演变。了解欧洲扩张如何以及为何塑造了关于灾难的现代观念，以及摄影如何发展来传达人类苦难，预计将有利于社区和学术界对环境灾难、战争及其影响的认识。