Camera Orientalis : reflections on photography of the Middle East

1. Verfasser: Behdad, Ali, 1961- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 208 pages: illustrations; 24 cm
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Orientalist photographThe tourist, the collector, and the curator : on the lives and afterlives of Ottoman-era photography
  • The politics of resident photography in the Middle East : reflections on Antoin Sevruguin's photographs of Qajar-era Iran
  • In my grandfather's darkroom : on photographic (self-)exoticism in the Middle East
  • Local representations of power : on royal portrait photography in Iran
  • Afterword : on photography and Neo-orientalism today.