Local portraiture : through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers

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Title
"Local portraiture : through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers"
Statement of Responsibility
Carmen Pérez González
Publisher
  • Leiden University Press
Publication Year
  • c2012
Book size
24 cm

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Notes

In English; occasional phrases in Persian with English translations

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

Bibliography: p. [195]-208

Includes index

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