{"product_id":"the-arab-imago-9780691151328","title":"The Arab Imago","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem--photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sheehi's text is a deep scholarly investigation of portrait photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that lays out a new methodology for examining historical photographs from indigenous photographers of the Ottoman World and potentially other regions of the global South, thereby adding an important, missing element to the field of photo-history.\"--Tina Barouti, H-Net Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents ix  Acknowledgments xi  Note on Translations and Transliterations xv  INTRODUCTION Proem to Indigenista Photography xvii  PART ONE HISTORIES AND PRACTICE  1 An Empire of Photographs: Abdullah Freres and the Osmanlilik Ideology 1  2 The Arab Imago: Jurji Saboungi and the Nahdah Image-Screen 27  3 The Carte de Visite: The Sociability of New Men and Women 53  4 Writing Photography: Technomateriality and the Verum Factum 75  PART TWO CASE STUDIES AND THEORY  5 Portrait Paths: The Sociability of the Photographic Portrait 103  6 Stabilizing Portraits, Stabilizing Modernity 121  7 The Latent and the Afterimage 141  8 The Mirror of Two Sanctuaries and Three Photographers 163  EPILOGUE On the Cusp of Arab Ottoman Photography 193  Notes 204  Index 218  Illustration Credits 221","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403784069463,"sku":"9780691151328","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691151328.jpg?v=1730484534","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-arab-imago-9780691151328","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}