Description
| 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.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9789400600775
9400600771
9789087282837
9087282834 |
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| Language: | In English; occasional phrases in Persian with English translations. |
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