Local portraiture : through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers

Author(s)

• Pérez González, Carmen

Bibliographic Information

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

Note

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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• NCID: BB14482793
• ISBN:
  • 9789087281564
• LCCN: 2013380264
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engper
• Place of Publication: [Leiden]
• Pages/Volumes: 328 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TR680
  • DC : 770
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Portrait photography -- Iran -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Iran -- Biography -- Portraits
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04453063