The indigenous lens? : early photography in the Near and Middle East /
The indigenous lens? : early photography in the Near and Middle East /
Early photography in the Near and Middle East
edited by Markus Ritter and Staci G. Scheiwiller.
- 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits
- Studies in theory and history of photography ; vol. 8 .
- Studies in theory and history of photography ; v. 8. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents -- Foreword -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Early photography in the Near and Middle East and the notion of an "indigenous lens" / Markus Ritter and Staci G. Scheiwiller -- Histories. The search for an Ottoman vernacular photography / Edhem Eldem ; Photography during the Qajar era, 1842-1925 / Mohammadreza Tahmasbpour, translated by Reza Sheikh -- Biographies. Geographies traced and histories told: Photographic documentation of land and people by ʻAbdollah Mirza Qajar, 1880s-1890s / Elahe Helbig ; Early photography of the holy sites of Islam in the Arabian peninsula / Claude W. Sui ; Relocating Sevruguin: Contextualizing the political climate of the Iranian photographer Antoin Sevruguin (c. 1851-1933) / Staci G. Scheiwiller -- Practices. The Ottoman in Ottoman photography: Producing identity through its negation / Wendy M. K. Shaw ; Written images: Poems on early Iranian portrait studio photography (1864-1930) and constitutional revolution postcards (1905-1911) / Carmen Pérez González ; The gate of the Bosporus: Early photographs of Istanbul and the Dolmabahçe Palace / Esra Akcan ; The heroic lens: Portrait photography of Ottoman insurgents in the nineteenth-century Balkans--Types and uses / Martina Baleva ; Glass plates and Kodak cameras: Arab amateur photography in the "era of film" / Stephen Sheehi -- Archives. The photography studio of the Naseri Harem in nineteenth-century Iran / Mohammad Sattari and Khadijeh Mohammadi Nameghi ; The photograph albums of the Royal Golestan Palace: A window into the social history of Iran during the Qajar era / Alireza Nabipour and Reza Sheikh ; How a former Museum of Modern Art curator assembled an international history of photography collection for Iran in the 1970s / Donna Stein -- Works cited -- List of contributors.
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.
9783110588873 (electronic bk.) 3110588870 (electronic bk.) 3110590875 9783110590876 3110491354 9783110491357
9783110491357
F9DA131E-A4BC-48C6-85AE-E360E62015B3 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2018286618
1113887540 DE-101 1113887540 GyFmDB
1800-1899
Photography--History--Middle East--19th century.
COMPUTERS--Digital Media--Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY--Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Imaging Systems.
Photography.
Middle East.
Electronic books.
History.
TR113.5 / .I54 2018eb
770
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents -- Foreword -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Early photography in the Near and Middle East and the notion of an "indigenous lens" / Markus Ritter and Staci G. Scheiwiller -- Histories. The search for an Ottoman vernacular photography / Edhem Eldem ; Photography during the Qajar era, 1842-1925 / Mohammadreza Tahmasbpour, translated by Reza Sheikh -- Biographies. Geographies traced and histories told: Photographic documentation of land and people by ʻAbdollah Mirza Qajar, 1880s-1890s / Elahe Helbig ; Early photography of the holy sites of Islam in the Arabian peninsula / Claude W. Sui ; Relocating Sevruguin: Contextualizing the political climate of the Iranian photographer Antoin Sevruguin (c. 1851-1933) / Staci G. Scheiwiller -- Practices. The Ottoman in Ottoman photography: Producing identity through its negation / Wendy M. K. Shaw ; Written images: Poems on early Iranian portrait studio photography (1864-1930) and constitutional revolution postcards (1905-1911) / Carmen Pérez González ; The gate of the Bosporus: Early photographs of Istanbul and the Dolmabahçe Palace / Esra Akcan ; The heroic lens: Portrait photography of Ottoman insurgents in the nineteenth-century Balkans--Types and uses / Martina Baleva ; Glass plates and Kodak cameras: Arab amateur photography in the "era of film" / Stephen Sheehi -- Archives. The photography studio of the Naseri Harem in nineteenth-century Iran / Mohammad Sattari and Khadijeh Mohammadi Nameghi ; The photograph albums of the Royal Golestan Palace: A window into the social history of Iran during the Qajar era / Alireza Nabipour and Reza Sheikh ; How a former Museum of Modern Art curator assembled an international history of photography collection for Iran in the 1970s / Donna Stein -- Works cited -- List of contributors.
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.
9783110588873 (electronic bk.) 3110588870 (electronic bk.) 3110590875 9783110590876 3110491354 9783110491357
9783110491357
F9DA131E-A4BC-48C6-85AE-E360E62015B3 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2018286618
1113887540 DE-101 1113887540 GyFmDB
1800-1899
Photography--History--Middle East--19th century.
COMPUTERS--Digital Media--Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY--Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Imaging Systems.
Photography.
Middle East.
Electronic books.
History.
TR113.5 / .I54 2018eb
770