The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 18601910
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 18601910
By (Author) Stephen Sheehi
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
21st June 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Middle Eastern history
778.92095609034
Physical Properties
Hardback
264
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
964g
Description
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 it
Reviews
"Sheehi's text is a deep scholarly investigation of portrait photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that lays out a new methodology for examining historical photographs from indigenous photographers of the Ottoman World and potentially other regions of the global South, thereby adding an important, missing element to the field of photo-history."--Tina Barouti, H-Net Review
Author Bio
Stephen Sheehi is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Chair of Middle East Studies at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Foundations of Modern Arab Identity and Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign against Muslims.
