Local Portraiture
- ISBN-10
- 9087281560
- ISBN-13
- 9789087281564
- Category
- Arts in general
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Author
- Carmen Pérez González
Description
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 howforeign 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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