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Book/Printed Material Local portraiture : through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers

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Title

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

Summary

  • 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.

Names

  • Pérez González, Carmen, 1969- author

Created / Published

  • Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2012]
  • ©2012

Contents

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  Portrait photography--Iran--History--19th century
  • -  Iran--Biography--Portraits

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  In English; occasional phrases in Persian with English translations.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (328 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TR680

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020719001

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Pérez González, Carmen, Author. Local portraiture: through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers. [Leiden: Leiden University Press, ©, 2012] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020719001/.

APA citation style:

Pérez González, C. (2012) Local portraiture: through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers. [Leiden: Leiden University Press, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020719001/.

MLA citation style:

Pérez González, Carmen, Author. Local portraiture: through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers. [Leiden: Leiden University Press, ©, 2012] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020719001/>.