Zoom out, the making and the unmaking of the 'Orient' through photography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index. "This volume evolved from "Zoom out: the making and the unmaking of the 'Orient' through photography," held at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, May 6-7, 2010"--Title page verso.
Contents:
The Orientalist photograph / Ali Behdad -- What's photography got to do with it? / Christopher Pinney -- The limits of circumscription / Mary Roberts -- Alternative histories of photography in the Ottoman Middle East / Nancy Micklewright -- Off the frame: the panoramic city albums of Istanbul / Esra Akcan -- Two or three dimensions? scale, photography, and Egypt's pyramids / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby -- Dandies on the pyramids: photography and German-speaking artists in Cairo / Luke Gartlan -- Flash forward: pictures at war / Hannah Feldman -- Travel albums and revisioning narratives: a case study in the Getty's Fleury "cachemire" album of 1908 / Rob Linrothe -- The mute testimony of the picture: British paper photography and India / John Tagg.
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