| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) : facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color). |
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text file |
| Series |
Iranian Studies Series
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Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Language |
In English; occasional phrases in Persian with English translations. |
| Subject |
Portrait photography -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.
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Portrait photography. |
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Iran. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Iran -- Biography -- Portraits.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Portraits.
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Electronic books. .
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Biographies.
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Portraits.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9789400600775 |
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9400600771 |
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9789087281564 paperback |
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9087281560 paperback |
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