Photography's Orientalism

Photography's Orientalism
Title Photography's Orientalism PDF eBook
Author Ali Behdad
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 226
Release 2013-10-01
Genre Photography
ISBN 1606062670

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The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe’s distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East. As new advances enhanced the versatility of the medium, nineteenth-century photographers were able to mass-produce images to incite and satisfy the demands of the region’s burgeoning tourist industry and the appetites of armchair travelers in Europe. In this way, the evolution of modern photography fueled an interest in visual contact with the rest of the world. Photography’s Orientalism offers the first in-depth cultural study of the works of European and non- European photographers active in the Middle East and India, focusing on the relationship between photographic, literary, and historical representations of this region and beyond. The essays explore the relationship between art and politics by considering the connection between the European presence there and aesthetic representations produced by traveling and resident photographers, thereby contributing to how the history of photography is understood.

Photography's Orientalism

Photography's Orientalism
Title Photography's Orientalism PDF eBook
Author Ali Behdad
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 226
Release 2013-10
Genre Art
ISBN 1606061518

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"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"--ECIP data view.

Camera Orientalis

Camera Orientalis
Title Camera Orientalis PDF eBook
Author Ali Behdad
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 229
Release 2016-08-12
Genre History
ISBN 022635640X

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From the time of its invention in 1839, photography had a crucial link to the Middle East. When Daguerre s invention was introduced, it was immediately hailed as a boon to Egyptologists and Orientalists wanting to document their archeological findings. The Middle East also beckoned European experimenters in this new medium for a simple technological reason: early photographs were more quickly and easily made in the intense light of the desert than in gloomy Paris or London. In Camera Orientalis, Ali Behdad examines the cultural and political implications of the emergence of photography in the Middle East. He shows that the camera proved useful to Orientalism, but so too was Orientalism useful to photographers, because it gave them a set of conventions by which to frame these exotic cultures in images for Western audiences. Behdad breaks with standard postcolonial approaches by showing that Orientalist photography was the product of contacts between the West and the East. Indeed, local photographers participated enthusiastically in exoticist representations of the region, adapting Orientalism to the taste of the local elite. Orientalist photography, we learn, was not a one-way street but rather the product of ideas and conventions that circulated between the West and the East."

Orientalism's Interlocutors

Orientalism's Interlocutors
Title Orientalism's Interlocutors PDF eBook
Author Jill Beaulieu
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 248
Release 2002-12-06
Genre Art
ISBN 9780822328742

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DIVA collection of essays that develop ways of doing postcolonial studies in art history./div

Orientalism

Orientalism
Title Orientalism PDF eBook
Author Edward W. Said
Publisher Vintage
Pages 434
Release 2014-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0804153868

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A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.

From Sebah & Joaillier to Foto Sabah

From Sebah & Joaillier to Foto Sabah
Title From Sebah & Joaillier to Foto Sabah PDF eBook
Author Engin Özendes
Publisher
Pages 274
Release 1999
Genre
ISBN

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Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament
Title Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament PDF eBook
Author Carol A. Breckenridge
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 376
Release 1993
Genre History
ISBN 9780812214369

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This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.