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 in19th-century studio portrait photography. This book explores how indigenous Iranian photographers constructed their own realities in contrast to how foreign photographers constructed Iranians' re...
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| Format: | Elektroniczne E-book |
| Język: | angielski arabski |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press,
[2012]
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| Seria: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Dostęp online: | Full text available: |
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| Streszczenie: | 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. |
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| Opis fizyczny: | 1 online resource (330 pages): facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color). |
| ISBN: | 9789400600775 |
| Ograniczenie dostępu: | Open Access |