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

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

Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pérez González, Carmen, 1969-
Imprint:	[Leiden] : Leiden University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English Arabic
Series:	Iranian studies series Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
Subject:	Portrait photography -- Iran -- History -- 19th century. Portrait photography. Iran. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11786689

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ISBN:	9789400600775 9400600771 9087281560 9789087281564 9789087282837 9087282834
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English; occasional phrases in Persian with English translations.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers . Leiden, : Leiden University Press c2012 9789087282837

Table of 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.