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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perez González, Carmen, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (330 pages): facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color).
ISBN:9789400600775
Acceso:Open Access