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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Leiden] :
Leiden University Press
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431208806719 |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789087282837 9789400600775 |
