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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sheehi, Stephen, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
1800-1999
Portrait photography > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Photography > Social aspects > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Portrait photography > Middle East > History > 20th century.
Photography > Social aspects > Middle East > History > 20th century.
Arabs > Portraits.
Arabes > Portraits.
PHOTOGRAPHY / History
Arabs
Photography > Social aspects
Portrait photography
Middle East
portraits.
Portraits
History
Portraits.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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