The Photographic Heritage Of The Middle East
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Author | : Paul E. Chevedden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Exhibited at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA Research Library, November 5, 1981-February 21, 1982"--T.p. verso.
Author | : Ali Behdad |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022635640X |
From the time of its invention in 1839, photography had a crucial link to the Middle East. When Daguerre s invention was introduced, it was immediately hailed as a boon to Egyptologists and Orientalists wanting to document their archeological findings. The Middle East also beckoned European experimenters in this new medium for a simple technological reason: early photographs were more quickly and easily made in the intense light of the desert than in gloomy Paris or London. In Camera Orientalis, Ali Behdad examines the cultural and political implications of the emergence of photography in the Middle East. He shows that the camera proved useful to Orientalism, but so too was Orientalism useful to photographers, because it gave them a set of conventions by which to frame these exotic cultures in images for Western audiences. Behdad breaks with standard postcolonial approaches by showing that Orientalist photography was the product of contacts between the West and the East. Indeed, local photographers participated enthusiastically in exoticist representations of the region, adapting Orientalism to the taste of the local elite. Orientalist photography, we learn, was not a one-way street but rather the product of ideas and conventions that circulated between the West and the East."
Author | : Paul E. Chevedden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780890030967 |
Author | : Paul E. Chevedden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Exhibited at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA Research Library, November 5, 1981-February 21, 1982"--T.p. verso.
Author | : Francis Bedford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781905686186 |
In 1862 the leading British photographer, Francis Bedford, was commissioned by Queen Victoria to accompany her son and heir, the future King Edward VII, on an ambitious journey around the Middle East. This book documents that journey.
Author | : Jalal Toufic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789953002736 |
Cultural Writing. Middle Eastern Studies. Photography. Presented by the Arab Image Foundation, whose project is to "locate, collect, preserve, interpret and present the photographic heritage and visual culture of the Middle East and North Africa from the early 19th Century to the present" and edited by writer, film theorist, and video artist JalalToufic, this beautiful and haunting book showcases the photography of three Middle Eastern artists. "One way of accepting the saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words' regarding some photograph is to take it to mean that that photograph initially arrested the viewer's interior monologue for the interval during which on average a thousand words pass through his or her mind. It is only such a picture that is worth subsequently writing a thousand words about." (from Toufic's preface). The REVIEW OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY includes Toufic's essay "Saving Face;" a photographic dossier by, and an interview with Lebanese artist Walid Raad; and a photographic
Author | : Stephen Sheehi |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691151326 |
The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem—photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of its own photographers, collectors, and patrons. In this book, Stephen Sheehi presents a groundbreaking new account of early photography in the Arab world. The Arab Imago concentrates primarily on studio portraits by Arab and Armenian photographers in the late Ottoman Empire. Examining previously known studios such as Abdullah Frères, Pascal Sébah, Garabed Krikorian, and Khalil Raad, the book also provides the first account of other pioneers such as Georges and Louis Saboungi, the Kova Brothers, Muhammad Sadiq Bey, and Ibrahim Rif'at Pasha—as well as the first detailed look at early photographs of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. In addition, the book explores indigenous photography manuals and albums, newspapers, scientific journals, and fiction. Featuring extensive previously unpublished images, The Arab Imago shows how native photography played an essential role in the creation of modern Arab societies in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon before the First World War. At the same time, the book overturns Eurocentric and Orientalist understandings of indigenous photography and challenges previous histories of the medium.
Author | : Hermoine Macura |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781936449675 |
Author | : Markus Ritter |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 3110590875 |
The historiography of early photography has scarcely examined Islamic countries in the Near and Middle East, although the new technique was adopted very quickly there by the 1840s. Which regional, local, and global aspects can be made evident? What role did autochthonous image and art traditions have, and which specific functions did photography meet since its introduction? This collective volume deals with examples from Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the Arab lands and with the question of local specifics, or an „indigenous lens." The contributions broach the issues of regional histories of photography, local photographers, specific themes and practices, and historical collections in these countries. They offer, for the first time in book form, a cross-section through a developing field of the history of photography.
Author | : Ali Behdad |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022635654X |
In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making the region one of the original sites for the practice of photography. A pioneering study of this intertwined history, Camera Orientalis traces the Middle East’s influences on photography’s evolution, as well as photography’s effect on Europe’s view of “the Orient.” Considering a range of Western and Middle Eastern archival material from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ali Behdad offers a rich account of how photography transformed Europe’s distinctly Orientalist vision into what seemed objective fact, a transformation that proved central to the project of European colonialism. At the same time, Orientalism was useful for photographers from both regions, as it gave them a set of conventions by which to frame exotic Middle Eastern cultures for Western audiences. Behdad also shows how Middle Eastern audiences embraced photography as a way to foreground status and patriarchal values while also exoticizing other social classes. An important examination of previously overlooked European and Middle Eastern photographers and studios, Camera Orientalis demonstrates that, far from being a one-sided European development, Orientalist photography was the product of rich cultural contact between the East and the West.