The Indigenous Lens?: Early Photography in the Near and Middle East

Published by De Gruyter 2018

The Indigenous Lens?

Early Photography in the Near and Middle East

Edited by: Markus Ritter and Staci G. Scheiwiller

Volume 8 in the series Studies in Theory and History of Photography

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110590876

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About this book

The historiography of early photography has scarcely examined Islamic countries in the Near and Middle East, although the new technique was adopted very quickly there by the 1840s. Which regional, local, and global aspects can be made evident? What role did autochthonous image and art traditions have, and which specific functions did photography meet since its introduction? This collective volume deals with examples from Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the Arab lands and with the question of local specifics, or an „indigenous lens." The contributions broach the issues of regional histories of photography, local photographers, specific themes and practices, and historical collections in these countries. They offer, for the first time in book form, a cross-section through a developing field of the history of photography.

Author / Editor information

Markus Ritter, University of Vienna; Staci Gem Scheiwiller, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock.

Reviews

"Zahlreiche Illustrationen machen den Band zu einem wertvollen und lesens- wie anschauenswerten Dokument der Forschung zur frühen Fotografie in südwestasiatischen Gebieten bis hin zu Regionen des Balkans. Der von Ritter und Schweiwiller herausgegebene Band ist eine hochwillkommene Ergänzung der Bemühungen zur Erforschung der visuellen Kulturen der behandelten Regionen."
Rüdiger Lohlker in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 108 (2018), 511-512

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
FOREWORD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction: Early Photography in the Near and Middle East and the Notion of an “Indigenous Lens” Markus Ritter and Staci G. Scheiwiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Histories
The Search for an Ottoman Vernacular Photography Edhem Eldem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Photography during the Qajar Era, 1842–1925 Mohammadreza Tahmasbpour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Biographies
Geographies Traced and Histories Told: Photographic Documentation of Land and People by ʿAbdollah Mirza Qajar, 1880s–1890s Elahe Helbig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Early Photography of the Holy Sites of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula Claude W. Sui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Relocating Sevruguin: Contextualizing the Political Climate of the Iranian Photographer Antoin Sevruguin (c. 1851–1933) Staci G. Scheiwiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Practices
The Ottoman in Ottoman Photography: Producing Identity through its Negation Wendy M. K. Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Written Images: Poems On Early Iranian Portrait Studio Photography (1864–1930) and Constitutional Revolution Postcards (1905–1911) Carmen Pérez González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Gate of the Bosporus: Early Photographs of Istanbul and the Dolmabahçe Palace Esra Akcan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
The Heroic Lens: Portrait Photography of Ottoman Insurgents in the Nineteenth-Century Balkans—Types and Uses Martina Baleva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
lass Plates and Kodak Cameras: Arab Amateur Photography in the “Era of Film” Stephen Sheehi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Archives
The Photography Studio of the Naseri Harem in Nineteenth-Century Iran Mohammad Sattari and Khadijeh Mohammadi Nameghi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
The Photograph Alb ums of the Royal Golestan Palace: A Window into the Soci al Hi story of Iran during the Qajar Era Alireza Nabipour and Reza Sheikh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
How a Former Museum of Modern Art Curator Assembled an International History of Photography Collection for Iran in the 1970s Donna Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art and photography historians, religious scholars, Scholars of Islam and the Middle East
Pages
- Front matter: 26
- Main content: 348
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 34
- Coloured Illustrations: 101

eBook

Published: December 18, 2017
ISBN: 9783110590876

Paperback

Published: December 18, 2017
ISBN: 9783110491357