Book
Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910 10695.html
(2016)
Abstract
The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem—photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of its own photographers, collectors, and patrons. In this book, Stephen Sheehi presents a groundbreaking new account of early photography in the Arab world, which both presents new information of the material histories of Arab photography while also offering a theoretical analysis and method to reading such images.
Keywords
- Photography,
- Middle East Studies,
- Arab Art,
- Arab Photography,
- Nahdah,
- Photographic Portraiture,
- Portraiture
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring May 1, 2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Citation Information
Stephen Sheehi. Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910 10695.html. (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stephen-sheehi/1/