UID:
almahu_9949383083202882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781315512136
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1315512130
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9781315512129
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1315512122
Series Statement:
Routledge history of photography
Content:
Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocular-centred society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that manoeuvred "betwixt and between" various social spaces-public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden - thus mapping, graphing, and even transgressing those spaces, especially in light of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of primary interest is how photographs negotiated and coded gender, sexuality, and desire, becoming strategies of empowerment, of domination, of expression, and of being seen. Hence, the photograph became a vehicle to traverse multiple locations that various gendered physical bodies could not, and it was also the social and political relations that had preceded the photograph that determined those ideological spaces of (im)mobility. In identifying these notions in photographs, one may glean information about how modern Iran metamorphosed throughout its own Longue Durée or resisted those societal transformations as a result of modernization.
Note:
Introduction : locations of desire -- A language of its own : depictions of women in Iranian art before and shortly after the arrival of photography -- Corporeal politics : constructions of gender and power in the royal Nasiri photograph albums and the photography of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-11) -- Collecting women -- The erotic spaces of Qajar photography -- For the male gaze : depictions of masculinity and sexuality -- Enslaved bodies of desire : photographs of black African slaves -- Conclusion : the inevitable witness.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Scheiwiller, Staci Gem. Liminalities of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Iranian photography. New York : Routledge, 2017 ISBN 9781138201293
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315512136
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