TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perez González,Carmen
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers 
T2  - Iranian Studies Series
SN  - 9789400600775
AV  - TR680 .P4637 2012
U1  - 770 
KW  - Portrait photography
KW  - Iran
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Portraits
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/46346/
ER  -