Arab imago, the: a social history of portrait photography, 1860–1910
Auteur :
Sheehi, Stephen
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691151328
Date de publication :
12 avr. 2016
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 cm
Poids :
964 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem--photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of it