Local Portraiture Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers / Carmen Perez González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez González, Carmen, 1969- author.

Series:

Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)

Iranian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait photography--Iran--History--19th century.

Portrait photography.

Iran--Biography--Portraits.

Iran.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Leiden] : Leiden University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789087282837

9087282834

9789400600775

9400600771

OCLC:

834550459

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access