TY - BOOK AU - Perez González,Carmen ED - Project Muse. TI - Local Portraiture : : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers / T2 - Iranian Studies Series SN - 9789400600775 PY - 2012///] CY - Leiden PB - Leiden University Press KW - Portraits (Photographie) KW - Iran KW - Histoire KW - 19e siecle KW - Portrait photography KW - fast KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING KW - Imaging Systems KW - bisacsh KW - PHOTOGRAPHY KW - Reference KW - COMPUTERS KW - Digital Media KW - Photography KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Portraits KW - Biographies KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Visual literacy : the relationship between the direction of writing and composition -- The written image : text and photography -- Pose, gesture and objects held by the sitter -- Arrangement of space -- Interactions between Western and Iranian photography; Open Access N2 - Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in19th-century studio portrait photography. This book explores how indigenous Iranian photographers constructed their own realities in contrast to how foreign photographers constructed Iranians' realities. Through an in-depth comparative visual analysis of 19th-century Iranian portrait photography and Persian painting, the author arrives at the insight that aesthetic preferences correlate with socio-cultural habits and practices in writing, reading and looking. Subsequently, she advocates for a place in a global history of photography for those unknown, local photo histories (such as the Iranian one) and for the indigenous photographers who produced them UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/46346/ ER -