Local portraiture : through the lens of the 19th-century Iranian photographers / Carmen Pérez González.
Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers /
Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in 19th-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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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[Leiden] :
Leiden University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| Summary: | Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in 19th-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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789400600775 9400600771 9789087282837 9087282834 |
| Language: | In English; occasional phrases in Persian with English translations. |