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Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th-century Iranian Photographers (Iranian Studies) (Iranian Studies Series) - Softcover
This thoughtfully and meticulously researched book explores the work of indigenous Iranian photographers and the way in which their photographs reflect their society and surroundings. In order to highlight how photography reflects local culture, Carmen Perez Gonzalez, a photographer herself, offers a comparative visual analysis of nineteenth-century Iranian photographs and paintings created during the same time period and in the same place in order to show that aesthetic preferences are rooted in the socio-cultural habits of artists. ""This lushly illustrated book is a testimony to the unique power and historical value of photographic portraits and their enduring power to capture local realities.
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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. International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) prize winner 2011. - Carmen Perez Gonzalez studied astrophysics, photography and art history and works at the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne, Germany.
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- PublisherLeiden University Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 9087281560
- ISBN 13 9789087281564
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages330
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