Aisha = عائشة / Yumna Al-Arashi. Aisha = 'Ā'ishah / Yumna Al-Arashi.

Main entry:

Al-Arashi, Yumna, 1988- author, photographer.

Title & Author:

Aisha = عائشة / Yumna Al-Arashi. Aisha = 'Ā'ishah / Yumna Al-Arashi.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Zurich : Patrick Frey, 2024.

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Series:

Edition Patrick Frey ; no. 368

Notes:
Spine title.
"Al-ṣuwar wa-al-kitābah Yumná al-ʻArshī"--colophon.
"Photographs and writing by Yumna Al-Arashi"--colophon.
Parallel texts in English and Arabic.

Summary:

"A stirring love letter to the artist's great-grandmother, Aisha, and a visual and poetic homage to an elderly generation of women across the Middle East and Northern Africa - the very matriarchies Al-Arashi descends from. This is the first artists' book of Yemeni-Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi (born 1988). Inspired by Al-Arashi's great-grandmother, Aisha, the book is a homage to the lineage of women from the many-layered landscapes of the MENA region. Searching for an understanding of the tattoos that graced her great-grandmother's body, Al-Arashi embraces the complexities of a symbolic matriarchal tradition. Unable to visit one of her places of origin, the war-stricken Yemen, Al-Arashi traveled through Northern Africa, where she met and photographed a diverse group of women belonging more or less to the same generation. By refusing the violence of selection and definition surrounding women's practices, Al-Arashi publishes every single photograph from her journey in this 392 page monograph, moving the work into an ethereal cinematic celebration. Aisha includes Al-Arashi's prose and poetry in which she reflects on memories of her great-grandmother. In her genre-stretching texts, Al-Arashi also speaks on colonial archives, intergenerational storytelling and the complexities of transnational female Arab identity in patriarchal, capitalist and imperialist societies." -- Printed Matter website.

ISBN:

3907236688
9783907236680

Subject:

Al-Arashi, Yumna, 1988-
Photography of women Africa, North.
Portrait photography Africa, North.
Photographie de femmes Afrique du Nord.
Portraits (Photographie) Afrique du Nord.

Form/genre:

artists' books (books)
photobooks.
Artists' books.
Photobooks.
Livres d'artistes.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Mohsen, Engy, translator
Edition Patrick Frey, issuing body.
Edition Patrick Frey (Series) ; no. 368.

ʻĀʼishah
Aisha = عائشة / Yumna Al-Arashi.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321957
Call No.: 321957
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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