Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers /
Carmen Perez González.
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | [Leiden] : : Leiden University Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (330 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Visual literacy : the relationship between the direction of writing and composition -- The written image : text and photography -- Pose, gesture and objects held by the sitter -- Arrangement of space -- Interactions between Western and Iranian photography.. - 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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| ISBN | 90-8728-283-4. - 94-006-0077-1
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