TY  - BOOK
AU  - González,Carmen Pérez
TI  - Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers 
SN  - 9789087282837
PB  - Leiden University Press
KW  - Photography / Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Photography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in19th-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://openresearchlibrary.org/content/ea961e83-2d9f-4834-8fd9-5fe56430e489
ER  -