The Indigenous Lens? : Early Photography in the near and Middle East.

Intro -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- Introduction: Early Photography in the Near and Middle East and the Notion of an "Indigenous Lens" -- Histories -- The Search for an Ottoman Vernacular Photography -- Photography during the Qajar Era, 1842-1925 -- Biographies -- Geographies Traced and Histories Told: Photographic Documentation of Land and People by ʿAbdollah Mirza Qajar, 1880s-1890s -- Early Photography of the Holy Sites of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula -- Relocating Sevruguin: Contextualizing the Political Climate of the Iranian Photographer Antoin Sevruguin (c. 1851-1933) -- Practices -- The Ottoman in Ottoman Photography: Producing Identity through its Negation -- Written Images: Poems On Early Iranian Portrait Studio Photography (1864-1930) and Constitutional Revolution Postcards (1905-1911) -- The Gate of the Bosporus: Early Photographs of Istanbul and the Dolmabahçe Palace -- The Heroic Lens: Portrait Photography of Ottoman Insurgents in the Nineteenth-Century Balkans-Types and Uses -- lass Plates and Kodak Cameras: Arab Amateur Photography in the "Era of Film" -- Archives -- The Photography Studio of the Naseri Harem in Nineteenth-Century Iran -- The Photograph Alb ums of the Royal Golestan Palace: A Window into the Soci al Hi story of Iran during the Qajar Era -- How a Former Museum of Modern Art Curator Assembled an International History of Photography Collection for Iran in the 1970s -- Works Cited -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

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