Photography's Orientalism : new essays on colonial representation / edited by Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan.
Published / Created:
Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2013]2013
Physical Description:
215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Subject Terms:
Orientalism in art -- Middle East. | Imperialism in art. | Art -- Political aspects -- Middle East. | Photography -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century.
Contributors:
Behdad, Ali, 1961– editor of compilation. | Gartlan, Luke, editor of compilation.