View from inside : contemporary Arab photography, video and mixed media art / Wendy Watriss, Karin Adrian von Roques, Dr. Claude W. Sui, Samer Mohdad, Mona Khazindar.
Publisher:
FotoFest ;
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
323 pages, 21 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 31 cm
Published to accompany an exhibition. Chiefly illustrations. Includes work by: Ebtisam AbdulAziz, Khalil Abdul Wahid, Ammar Al-Beik, Manal AlDowayan, Shadia Alem, Reem Al Faisal, Sadik Alfraji, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Boushra Almutawakel, Khalifa Al Obaidly, Jowhara AlSaud, Sama Alshaibi, Karima Al-Shomely, Sami Al Turki, Tammam Azzam, Lara Baladi, Hicham Benohoud, Ayman Yossri Daydban, Shady El Noshokaty, Ayman El Semary, Lalla Essaydi, Mounir Fatmi, Lamya Gargash, Abdulnasser Gharem, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Khaled Hafez, Hassan Hajjaj, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Hazem Harb, Hazem Taha Hussein, Georges Fikry Ibrahim, Noel Jabbour, Ahmed Jadallah, Mohamed Kanoo, Mohammed Kazem, Huda Lutfi, Maha Malluh, Ahmed Mater, Hassan Meer, Samer Mohdad, Youssef Nabil, Ayman Ramadan, Steve Sabella, Faisal Samra, Wael Shawky, and Camille Zakharia. Includes bibliographical references (pages [324-326].
Contents:
View from inside / Wendy Watriss -- On art and photography : a situation report / Karin Adrian von Roques -- Works -- The beginning of photography in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia during the Ottoman Empire of the Nineteenth Century / Dr. Claude W. Sui -- Tracing the history of photography in the Arab world : a personal perspective / Samer Mohdad -- Arab photography : changes in an art form / Mona Khazindar.
Summary:
'View From Inside' is an expansive presentation of contemporary Arab video, photography, and mixed media from the Middle East and North Africa. The book shows the works of fifty leading Arab artists from fourteen countries. The works reflect the emergence of photographic, video and digital art as important forms of creative visual expression in the Arab world over the past twenty years. The artworks address a broad range of issues that the artists themselves have defined as important to the modern Arab experience. Four texts cover the early appearance of photography in the Middle East and North Africa in the mid-nineteenth century through photography's evolution as an integral part of the contemporary Arab art world. Exhibition: Fotofest, Houston, USA (15.3.-27.4.2014).
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.