Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 172 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781350111592
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9781350111578
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9781350111585
Series Statement:
Dress cultures
Content:
Travel photography, amateur photography, and locality -- Were there female photographers in the region? -- Producing an alternative space : destabilizing fixed images of womanhood -- Women, politics, and portraiture during the French Mandate -- Modernity as expressed in the photographs -- "Successful failures," or, Marie a-Khazen's photographic experiments.
Content:
"The Lebanese photographer Marie al-Khazen seized every opportunity to use her camera during the years that she was active between 1920 and 1940. She not only documented her travels around tourist sites in Lebanon but also sought creative experimentation with her camera by staging scenes, manipulating shadows, and superimposing negatives to produce different effects in her prints. Within her photographs, bedouins and European friends, peasants and landlords, men and women comfortably share the same space. Her photographs include an intriguing collection portraying her family and friends living their everyday lives in 1920s and '30s Zgharta, a village in the north of Lebanon. Yasmine Nachabe Taan explores these photographs, emphasizing the ways in which notions of gender and class are inscribed within them and revealing how they are charged with symbols of women's emancipation to today's viewers, through women's presence as individuals, separate from family restrictions of that time. Images in which women are depicted smoking cigarettes, driving cars, riding horses, and accompanying men on hunting trips counteract the common ways in which women were portrayed in contemporary Lebanon"--
Note:
"I would like to thank Mohsen Yammine and the Arab Image Foundation, for having located and preserved Marie al-Khazen's photographs without which this project would not have seen light. I owe gratitude to the photographer's relatives for their time and effort in retracing bits and pieces of Marie al-Khazen's life"--Acknowledgements
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-168) and index
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compatible with accessibility standards for most Level A (Priority 1) and AA (Priority 2) success criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) developed by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781788314800
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Taan, Yasmine Reading Marie al-Khazen's photographs London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 ISBN 9781788314800
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350111592
