Camera Orientalis : reflections on photography of the Middle East /
In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light ma...
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Chicago :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The Orientalist photograph
- The 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.