Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th-Century Iranian Photographers

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This thoughtfully and meticulously researched book explores the work of indigenous Iranian photographers and the way in which their photographs reflect their society and surroundings. In order to highlight how photography reflects local culture, Carmen Pérez González, a photographer herself, offers a comparative visual analysis of nineteenth-century Iranian photographs and paintings created during the same time period and in the same place in order to show that aesthetic preferences are rooted in the socio-cultural habits of artists.  This lushly illustrated book is a testimony to the unique power and historical value of photographic portraits and their enduring power to capture local realities. Local Portraiture Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Acknowledgments for the images INTRODUCTION BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN IRAN 1 VISUAL LATERALITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DIRECTION OF WRITING AND COMPOSITION 2 THE WRITTEN IMAGE: TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY 3 POSE, GESTURE AND OBJECTS HELD BY THE SITTER 4 ARRANGEMENT OF SPACE 5 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WESTERN AND IRANIAN PHOTOGRAPHY CONCLUSION AFTERWORD BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX: PHOTO-CHRONOLOGY About the author Index PHOTOS