Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers
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Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers

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Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers by Carmen Pérez González in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Photography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Leiden University Press
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9789087282837
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Photography

Table of contents

  1. Local Portraiture
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Acknowledgments for the images
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN IRAN
  8. 1 VISUAL LATERALITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DIRECTION OF WRITING AND COMPOSITION
  9. 2 THE WRITTEN IMAGE: TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY
  10. 3 POSE, GESTURE AND OBJECTS HELD BY THE SITTER
  11. 4 ARRANGEMENT OF SPACE
  12. 5 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WESTERN AND IRANIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
  13. CONCLUSION
  14. AFTERWORD
  15. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  16. APPENDIX: PHOTO-CHRONOLOGY
  17. About the author
  18. Index
  19. PHOTOS