Local portraiture : through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers
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Local portraiture : through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers
Carmen Pérez González
（Iranian studies series / chief editor, A.A. Seyed-Gohrab）
Leiden University Press, c2012
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In English; occasional phrases in Persian with English translations
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
Bibliography: p. [195]-208
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) prize winner 2011
Table of Contents
Local Portraiture - 2 Table of Contents - 8 Foreword - 10 Acknowledgments - 14 Acknowledgments for the images - 18 INTRODUCTION - 20 BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN IRAN - 28 1 VISUAL LATERALITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DIRECTION OF WRITING AND COMPOSITION - 42 2 THE WRITTEN IMAGE: TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY - 72 3 POSE, GESTURE AND OBJECTS HELD BY THE SITTER - 106 4 ARRANGEMENT OF SPACE - 132 5 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WESTERN AND IRANIAN PHOTOGRAPHY - 156 CONCLUSION - 190 AFTERWORD - 194 BIBLIOGRAPHY - 196 APPENDIX: PHOTO-CHRONOLOGY - 210 About the author - 216 Index - 218 PHOTOS - 222
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