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

• Main Author: Ritter, Markus.
• Other Authors: Scheiwiller, Staci G.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2017.
• Series: Studies in theory and history of photography.
• Subjects: fotografie > Blízký východ > dějiny > 19. století; photography > Middle East > history > 19th century; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783110590876; 9783110491357
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (372 stran).

The historiography of early photography has scarcely examined Islamic countries in the Near and Middle East, although the new technique was adopted very quickly there by the 1840s. Which regional, local, and global aspects can be made evident? What role did autochthonous image and art traditions hav...