TY  - BOOK
AU  - González, Carmen Pérez
AB  - 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.
DO  - doi.org/10.24415/9789087281564
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625756
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 834550459
KW  - History
KW  - Photography
KW  - Albumen print
KW  - Iran
KW  - Persian language
KW  - Qajar dynasty
KW  - Western culture
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/a3f5e08f-fa72-47c6-bb7e-545d6d41d6c9/625756.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45658
PB  - Leiden University Press
PP  - Leiden
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9789087282837
TI  - Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers
ER  - 
