Introduction : locations of desire -- A language of its own : depictions of women in Iranian art before and shortly after the arrival of photography -- Corporeal politics : constructions of gender and power in the royal Nasiri photograph albums and the photography of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-11) -- Collecting women -- The erotic spaces of Qajar photography -- For the male gaze : depictions of masculinity and sexuality -- Enslaved bodies of desire : photographs of black African slaves -- Conclusion : the inevitable witness.
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