Imaging and imagining Palestine : photography, modernity and the biblical lens, 1918-1948 / edited by Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanchez-Summerer, Karene, editor.

Zananiri, Sary, editor.

Series:

Open Jerusalem (Series) ; 2543-0211 v. 3.

Open Jerusalem, 2543-0211 ; vol. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Israel--History--20th century.

Photography.

Documentary photography--Israel.

Documentary photography.

Photographic industry--Israel.

Photographic industry.

History.

Palestine--Social life and customs--20th century.

Palestine.

Manners and customs.

Israel.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 432 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918-1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary volume argues that photography is central to a different understanding of the social and political complexities of Palestine in this period. While Biblical and Orientalist images abound, the chapters in this book go further by questioning the impact of photography on the social histories of British Mandate Palestine. This book considers the specific archives, the work of individual photographers, methods for reading historical photography from the present and how we might begin the process of decolonising photography"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Imaging and Imagining Palestine: An Introduction / Sary Zananiri

pt. 1 In and out of the Archives: Photographic Collections and the Historical Case Studies

2. `Little Orphans of Jerusalem': The American Colony's Christian Herald Orphanage in Photographs and Negatives / Abigail Jacobson

3. Swedish Imaginings, Investments and Local Photography in Jerusalem, 1925

1939 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug

4. The Dominicans' Photographic Collection in Jerusalem: Beyond a Catholic Perception of the Holy Land? / Karene Sanchez Summerer

5. Bearers of Memory: Photo Albums as Sources of Historical Study in Palestine / Issam Nassar

pt. 2 Points of Perspective: Photographers and Their Lens

6. Resilient Resistance: Colonial Biblical, Archaeological and Ethnographical Imaginaries in the Work of Chalil Raad (Khalll Ra'd), 1891

1948 / Rona Seta

7. Open Roads: John D. Whiting, Diary in Photos, 1934

1939 / Rachel Lev

8. Documenting the Social: Frank Scholten Taxonomising Identity in British Mandate Palestine / Sary Zananiri

pt. 3 After Effects: Methodologies, Approaches and Reconceptualising Photography

9. Edward Keith-Roach's Favourite Things: Indigenising National Geographic's Images of Mandatory Palestine / Yazan Kopty

10. Decolonising the Photography of Palestine: Searching for a Method in a Plate of Hummus / Stephen Sheehi

11. Urban Encounters: Imaging the City in Mandate Palestine / Nadi Abusaada

12. Epilogue / Aude Aylin De Tapia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Imaging and imagining Palestine

ISBN:

9789004437937

9004437932

OCLC:

1240828731