| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) : facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) |
| Series |
Iranian Studies Series |
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Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English; occasional phrases in Arabic with English translations |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Portrait photography -- Iran -- History -- 19th century
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
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Portrait photography
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- Biography -- Portraits
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| Subject |
Iran
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| Genre/Form |
portraits.
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Biographies
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History
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Portraits
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Biographies.
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Portraits.
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Biographies.
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Portraits.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013380264 |
| ISBN |
9400600771 |
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9789400600775 |
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