STEPHEN SHEEHI, ‘Arab Imago’
Arab Imago
Size: 17.78 x 25.4 cm
Pages 264
Published: Princeton University Press, 2016
The Arab Imago: A Social History of Indigenous Photography 1860-1910 (Princeton University Press) is the first book in English to comprehensively research native studios in Alexandria, Beirut, Cairo, Jaffa, and Jerusalem as well as early Hajj photography in al-Hijaz (now Saudi Arabia) during the late Ottoman period. In doing so, the book investigates the relationship between indigenous photography, social transformations and the creation of modern Arab society in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine before World War One. It offers a new theory of reading indigenous photography that reaches beyond the West versus the rest paradigm that structures the history of photography.