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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�...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pérez González, Carmen, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Published: [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, 2012.
Series:Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Visual literacy : the relationship between the direction of writing and composition
  • The written image : text and photography
  • Pose, gesture and objects held by the sitter
  • Arrangement of space
  • Interactions between Western and Iranian photography.