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Camera Orientalis

Name: Camera Orientalis
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226356402
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Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

Autor: Ali Behdad

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press

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In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East....

Informace o knize

Autor

Ali Behdad

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2016

Stránek

224

EAN

9780226356402

ISBN

022635640X

Enbook ID

10976451

Vydavatel

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

504

Rozměry

229 x 180 x 14

Kompletní popis

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.