Perez González, Carmen,  1969- <br/><br/>
Local Portraiture  Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers / 
Carmen Perez González. 
 - 1 online resource (328 pages) :   facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 
 - Iranian Studies Series .
 - Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands) Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Visual literacy : the relationship between the direction of writing and composition -- The written image : text and photography -- Pose, gesture and objects held by the sitter -- Arrangement of space -- Interactions between Western and Iranian photography. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in 19th-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. 
<br/><br/><br/>In English; occasional phrases in Persian with English translations. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789400600775 9400600771 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Portrait photography--History--Iran--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Iran--Biography--Portraits.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TR680  / .P4637 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>770