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

• Tác giả: Carmen Perez González
• Ngôn ngữ: eng ; ara ; ara
• ISBN-13: 978-9400600775
• Thông tin xuất bản: Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2012
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (330 pages) : , facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 372101
• Chủ đề: 1. Portraits (Photographie)--Histoire--19e siecle--Iran; 2. COMPUTERS--Digital Media; 3. PHOTOGRAPHY--Reference; 4. Portrait photography; 5. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Imaging Systems

Tóm tắt

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.