The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910

by Stephen Sheehi

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The first history of indigenous photography in the Middle East

The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem--photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of its own photographers,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691151326

ISBN13:9780691151328

Release Date:April 2016

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:2.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.9" x 10.2"

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