Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2013]
©2013

Description:

215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Series:

Issues & debates

Notes:
"This volume evolved from "Zoom out: the making and the unmaking of the 'Orient' through photography," held at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, May 6-7, 2010"--ECIP data view.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Orientalist photograph / Ali Behdad -- What's photography got to do with it? / Christopher Pinney -- The limits of circumscription / Mary Roberts -- Alternative histories of photography in the Ottoman Middle East / Nancy Micklewright -- Off the frame: the panoramic city albums of Istanbul / Esra Akcan -- Two or three dimensions? scale, photography, and Egypt's pyramids / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby -- Dandies on the pyramids: photography and German-speaking artists in Cairo / Luke Gartlan -- Flash forward: pictures at war / Hannah Feldman -- Travel albums and revisioning narratives: a case study in the Getty's Fleury "cachemire" album of 1908 / Rob Linrothe -- The mute testimony of the picture: British paper photography and India / John Tagg.

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. As new advances enhanced the versatility of the medium, nineteenth-century photographers were able to mass-produce images to incite and satisfy the demands of the region's burgeoning tourist industry and the appetites of armchair travelers in Europe. In this way, the evolution of modern photography fueled an interest in visual contact with the rest of the world. Photography's Orientalism offers the first in-depth cultural study of the works of European and nonEuropean photographers active in the Middle East and India, focusing on the relationship between photographic, literary, and historical representations of this region and beyond.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781606061510 (paperback)
1606061518 (paperback)

Subject:

Orientalism in art.
Imperialism in art.
Art Political aspects Middle East.
Photography Middle East History 19th century.
Orientalisme dans l'art.
Impérialisme dans l'art.
Art Political aspects.
Photography.
Fotografie
Orientalismus
Kolonialismus
Repräsentation
Exoticism in art.
Konst politiska aspekter historia.
Fotografi historia.
Imperialism i konsten.
Orientalism i konsten.
Orientalism estetiska aspekter.
Middle East.
Mittlerer Osten

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Behdad, Ali, 1961- editor.
Gartlan, Luke, editor.
Issues & debates.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284306
Call No.: BIB 223045
Status: Available