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Local portraiture : through the lens of 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9400600771 9789400600775 |