Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation by Behdad, Ali

Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation

The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and...
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Author: Ali Behdad
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Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation by Behdad, Ali

Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation

$125.53

Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation

$125.53
Author: Ali Behdad
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 non- European photographers active in the Middle East and India, focusing on the relationship between photographic, literary, and historical representations of this region and beyond. The essays explore the relationship between art and politics by considering the connection between the European presence there and aesthetic representations produced by traveling and resident photographers, thereby contributing to how the history of photography is understood.

Author: Ali Behdad
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781606061510

About the Author

Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature and chair of the English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (Duke, 1994) and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (Duke, 2005). Luke Gartlan is a lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His recent publications include "'Bronzed and Muscular Bodies' Jinrikishas, Tattooed Bodies, and Yokohama Photography," in Transculturation in British Art, 1770 -1930 (Ashgate, 2012). He is also editor designate (2013 -14) of the journal History of Photography.




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