ISBN:
9789087282837
,
9789400600775
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9789400600782
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (330 pages)
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illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Series Statement:
Iranian studies series
Parallel Title:
Print version Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers
Keywords:
Portrait photography
;
Portrait photography
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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In English
URL:
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URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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