Local portraiture :: through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers /

Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in19th-century studio portrait photography. This book explores how indigenous Iranian photographers constructed their own realities in contrast to how foreign photographers constructed Iranians...

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1. Verfasser: Pérez González, Carmen, 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Arabic
Veröffentlicht: Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2012]
Schriftenreihe:Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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Zusammenfassung:Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in19th-century studio portrait photography. This book explores how indigenous Iranian photographers constructed their own realities in contrast to how foreign photographers constructed Iranians' realities. Through an in-depth comparative visual analysis of 19th-century Iranian portrait photography and Persian painting, the author arrives at the insight that aesthetic preferences correlate with socio-cultural habits and practices in writing, reading and looking. Subsequently, she advocates for a place in a global history of photography for those unknown, local photo histories (such as the Iranian one) and for the indigenous photographers who produced them.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (328 pages) : facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9400600771
9789400600775

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