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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 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�...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés Arabic |
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[Leiden] :
Leiden University Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789400600775 9400600771 9789087282837 9087282834 |