Local portraiture : through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers / Carmen Pérez González
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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| Place / Publishing House: | [Leiden] : Leiden Univ. Press, 2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Iranian studies series
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| Classification: | 21.40 - Photographie: Allgemeines |
| Physical Description: | 328 S.; zahlr. Ill. |
| Notes: | Literaturverz. S. [195] - 208 |
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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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| ISBN: | 9789087281564 |
| ac_no: | AC10761980 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Carmen Pérez González |