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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
- Visual literacy : the relationship between the direction of writing and composition
- The written image : text and photography
- Pose, gesture and objects held by the sitter
- Arrangement of space
- Interactions between Western and Iranian photography.