title: 6 Russia’s Central Asia: Photographic Symbology of Nationhood
abstract: With the popularization of photography, the medium's role in cultural and natural history followed new directions that reflected the ways in which imperial colonial science was being transformed. Ranging from landscape to portraiture, photography became a focus for various intellectual and crosscultural encounters and thus not only presented an extraordinary new visual technology but also introduced a new means of discourse between individuals, institutions, and audiences in different parts of t