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Imaging and imagining Palestine : photography, modernity and the biblical lens, 1918-1948 /
"Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918-1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441286.
Open Jerusalem ; 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918-1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary volume argues that photography is central to a different understanding of the social and political complexities of Palestine in this period. While Biblical and Orientalist images abound, the chapters in this book go further by questioning the impact of photography on the social histories of British Mandate Palestine. This book considers the specific archives, the work of individual photographers, methods for reading historical photography from the present and how we might begin the process of decolonising photography"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004437944 9004437940 9004437932 9789004437937 |