Framing the Non-West: New approaches to the history of photography
Forming a counterbalance to the first group of essays are the essays that shiftthe focus of production to the Middle Eastern region itself. [...]Nancy Mickelwright focuses on the photography albums and vernacular practices of ordinary Middle Eastern households, while Azra Akran investigates the mean...
Saved in:
| Published in: | Journal of colonialism & colonial history 2015-04, Vol.16 (1), p.N_A |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | Forming a counterbalance to the first group of essays are the essays that shiftthe focus of production to the Middle Eastern region itself. [...]Nancy Mickelwright focuses on the photography albums and vernacular practices of ordinary Middle Eastern households, while Azra Akran investigates the meanings that locally produced panoramic photographs of the Bosphorus had for the people of the city; and Mary Roberts focuses on the contrast between the self portraits produced by the Sultan Abdülaziz as a tool of Ottoman statecraftin the 1860s and the photography albums of his successor Abdülaziz II that are held in the Library of Congress. According to him this is because photography even in the West continues to fulfil the role of a particular kind of magic and enchantment and nowhere is that more obvious than with the daguerreotype. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1532-5768 1532-5768 |