Photography''s Orientalism New Essays on Colonial Representation - New Essays on Colonial Representation

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung 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. This book explores the interplay between 19th-century photography and Europe's vision of the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: . Behdad, Ali Behdad, Ali Gartian Behdad, Luke Gartian
• Assisted by: Ali Behdad (Editor), Luke Gartlan (Editor)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9781606061510
• ISBN: 978-1-60606-151-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Issues & Debates; BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Getty Publications -
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business