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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pérez González, Carmen, 1969- (Author)
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.