The Arab Imago : A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910 /

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"The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem--photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual...

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Autor principal: Sheehi, Stephen, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
PHOTOGRAPHY / History
Portrait photography.
Photography > Social aspects.
Arabs.
Arabs > Portraits.
Photography > Social aspects > Middle East > History > 20th century.
Portrait photography > Middle East > History > 20th century.
Photography > Social aspects > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Portrait photography > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Middle East.
History.
Portraits.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Histories and Practice
  • Chapter 1. An empire of photographs : Abdullah Freres and the Osmanlilik ideology
  • Chapter 2. The Arab imago : Jurji Saboungi and the Nahdah image-screen
  • Chapter 3. The carte de visite : the sociability of new men and women
  • Chapter 4. Writing photography : technomateriality and the verum factum
  • Part II. Case Studies and Theory
  • Chapter 5. Portrait paths : the sociability of the photographic portrait
  • Chapter 6. Stabilizing portraits, stabilizing modernity
  • Chapter 7. The latent and the afterimage
  • Chapter 8. The mirror of two sanctuaries and three photographers
  • Epilogue: On the cusp of Arab Ottoman photography.

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