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03699aam a22004818i 4500 001 6727B9648B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 151013t20162016ilu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2015039772 020 $a 022635640X 020 $a 9780226356402 020 $a 022635637X 020 $a 9780226356372 035 $a (OCoLC)926623457 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d ERASA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a aw----- 050 00 $a TR114 $b .B44 2016 082 00 $a 770.956 $2 23 100 1 $a Behdad, Ali, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Camera Orientalis : $b reflections on photography of the Middle East / $c Ali Behdad. 263 $a 1608 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b University of Chicago Press, $c 2016. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Orientalist photograph -- The tourist, the collector, and the curator : on the lives and afterlives of Ottoman-era photography -- The politics of resident photography in the Middle East : reflections on Antoin Sevruguin's photographs of Qajar-era Iran -- In my grandfather's darkroom : on photographic (self- )exoticism in the Middle East -- Local representations of power : on royal portrait photography in Iran -- Afterword : on photography and Neo-orientalism today. 520 8 $a In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light making the region one of the original sites for the practice of photography. A pioneering study of this intertwined history, Camera Orientalis traces the Middle East's influences on photography's evolution, as well as photography's effect on Europe's view of "the Orient." Considering a range of Western and Middle Eastern archival material from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ali Behdad offers a rich account of how photography transformed Europe's distinctly Orientalist vision into what seemed objective fact, a transformation that proved central to the project of European colonialism. At the same time, Orientalism was useful for photographers from both regions, as it gave them a set of conventions by which to frame exotic Middle Eastern cultures for Western audiences. Behdad also shows how Middle Eastern audiences embraced photography as a way to foreground status and patriarchal values while also exoticizing other social classes. An important examination of previously overlooked European and Middle Eastern photographers and studios, Camera Orientalis demonstrates that, far from being a one-sided European development, Orientalist photography was the product of rich cultural contact between the East and the West. 650 0 $a Photography $z Middle East $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Photography $x Political aspects $z Middle East. 650 0 $a Orientalism in art. 650 7 $a Orientalism in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01048141 650 7 $a Photography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01061714 650 7 $a Photography $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01061785 651 7 $a Middle East. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241586 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214053411.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200402014140.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214011731.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6727B9648B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search