Local portraiture : Through the lens of 19th-century Iranian photographers
Texte imprimé
- Auteurs : Pérez González Carmen (1969-....) ;
- Editeurs : Leiden Leiden University Press ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2012
- ISBN : 978-90-8728-156-4, 90-8728-156-0, 978-94-0060-077-5, 978-94-0060-078-2
- Sujets : Portraits (photographie) -- Iran 19e siècle, Iran -- Biographies -- Portraits
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (328 p.), : Ill. en noir et en coul., portr., couv. ill., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : Pays-Bas
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Iranian Studies Series
Notes
Notes bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Bibliogr. p. 195-208. Index
Résumé
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