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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Main Author: Pérez González, Carmen, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Arabic
Published: Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2012]
Series:Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 pages) : facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9400600771
9789400600775

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