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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez González, Carmen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in19th-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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100452

ISBN:

9789087282837

OCLC:

1044476152

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access