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

ISBN-10: 9087282834
ISBN-13: 9789087282837
Category: Arts in general
Pages: 330
Language: English
Author: Carmen Pérez González

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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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Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th-Century Iranian Photographers
- 2012-11-15
- 328 pages
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Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th-Century Iranian Photographers
- 2012-11-15
- 328 pages
- Paperback
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Local Portraiture
- 2012
- 328 pages
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- Amsterdam University Press

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