Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers / / Carmen Perez 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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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9087282834 9400600771 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Carmen Perez González. |