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Photography

Camera Orientalis Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

Behdad Ali

ISBN: PB: 9780226356402, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 80 halftones

In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and fa...

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Photography

Photography's Orientalism New Essays on Colonial Representation

Behdad Ali, Gartian Luke

ISBN: PB: 9781606061510, Getty Publications, August 2013
224 pp., 25.5x17.9 cm, 27 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

This book explores the interplay between 19th-century photography and Europe's vision of the Middle East. The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrume...

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