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Author:
Taan, Yasmine, author.
Title:
Reading Marie al-Khazen's photographs : gender, photography, Mandate Lebanon / Yasmine Nachabe Taan.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xiii, 172 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Photography--Lebanon--History--20th century.
Al-Khazen, Marie,--1899-1983--Appreciation.
Women photographers--Lebanon.
Yammine, Mohsen--Photograph collections.
Art appreciation.
Photograph collections.
Photography.
Women photographers.
Lebanon.
1900-1999
History.
Other Authors:
Fondation Arabe pour l'image, researcher.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Travel photography, amateur photography, and locality -- Were there female photographers in the region? -- Producing an alternative space : destabilizing fixed images of womanhood -- Women, politics, and portraiture during the French Mandate -- Modernity as expressed in the photographs -- "Successful failures," or, Marie a-Khazen's photographic experiments.
Summary:
"The Lebanese photographer Marie al-Khazen seized every opportunity to use her camera during the years that she was active between 1920 and 1940. She not only documented her travels around tourist sites in Lebanon but also sought creative experimentation with her camera by staging scenes, manipulating shadows, and superimposing negatives to produce different effects in her prints. Within her photographs, bedouins and European friends, peasants and landlords, men and women comfortably share the same space. Her photographs include an intriguing collection portraying her family and friends living their everyday lives in 1920s and '30s Zgharta, a village in the north of Lebanon. Yasmine Nachabe Taan explores these photographs, emphasizing the ways in which notions of gender and class are inscribed within them and revealing how they are charged with symbols of women's emancipation to today's viewers, through women's presence as individuals, separate from family restrictions of that time. Images in which women are depicted smoking cigarettes, driving cars, riding horses, and accompanying men on hunting trips counteract the common ways in which women were portrayed in contemporary Lebanon"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Dress cultures
ISBN:
1788314808
9781788314800
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1154852866
LCCN:
2020018179
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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