The indigenous lens?: early photography in the Near and Middle East
by Shaw, Wendy M. K., Eldem, Edhem, Pérez González, Carmen, Ṭahmāsbʹpūr, Muḥammad Riz̤ā, Shaykh, Riz̤ā, Helbig, Elahe, Sui, Claude W., Akcan, Esra, Baleva, Martina, Sheehi, Stephen, Sattārī, Muḥammad, Nameghi, Khadijeh Mohammadi, Nabipour, Alireza, Stein, Donna
fromStudies in theory and history of photography
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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 a…