Photography's Orientalism : new essays on colonial representation / edited by Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan.

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Series: Issues & debatesPublisher: Los Angeles, California : Getty Research Institute, 2013Description: 224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

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9781606061510 (pbk.) :
1606061518

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Summary: 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. This book offers an in-depth cultural study of the works of European and non-European photographers active in the Middle East, focusing on the relationship between photographic, literary, and historical representations of this region and beyond.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. This book offers an in-depth cultural study of the works of European and non-European photographers active in the Middle East, focusing on the relationship between photographic, literary, and historical representations of this region and beyond.

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