Photography's Orientalism : new essays on colonial representation

Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2013].
Umfang/Format: 215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Orientalist photograph / Ali Behdad
  • What's photography got to do with it? / Christopher Pinney
  • The limits of circumscription / Mary Roberts
  • Alternative histories of photography in the Ottoman Middle East / Nancy Micklewright
  • Off the frame: the panoramic city albums of Istanbul / Esra Akcan
  • Two or three dimensions? scale, photography, and Egypt's pyramids / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
  • Dandies on the pyramids: photography and German-speaking artists in Cairo / Luke Gartlan
  • Flash forward: pictures at war / Hannah Feldman
  • Travel albums and revisioning narratives: a case study in the Getty's Fleury "cachemire" album of 1908 / Rob Linrothe
  • The mute testimony of the picture: British paper photography and India / John Tagg.