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.
- ISBN13 9789087281564
- Publish Date 1 November 2012
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Leiden University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 330
- Language English
- URL http://aup.nl/index.php/catalogsearch/result/?q=9789087281564