Reading Marie al-Khazen's photographs : gender, photography, mandate Lebanon / Yasmine Nachabe Taan.

Main entry:

Taan, Yasmine, author.

Title & Author:

Reading Marie al-Khazen's photographs : gender, photography, mandate Lebanon / Yasmine Nachabe Taan.

Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.

Description:

xiii, 172 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Dress cultures

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Travel photography, amateur photography, and locality -- Were there early female photographers in the Middle East? -- Producing alternative spaces : destabilizing fixed images of womanhood -- Women, politics, and portraiture during the French Mandate -- Modernity as expressed in the photographs -- "Successful failures" or Marie al-Khazen's photographic experiments.

Summary:

"Marie al-Khazen's discerning photographs capture women in 1920s and 1930s Zgharta, smoking cigarettes, driving cars, riding horses, and leading men on hunting trips - images that exist in stark contrast to the common ways in which women were portrayed in contemporary Lebanon. Only recently uncovered by the Arab Image Foundation in their mission to "restore" the lost photographic record of Lebanon, Yasmine Nachabe Taan draws these images together in a unique study: combining art history, middle east cultural history, and gender history, she shows how al-Khazen - and her subjects - expressed themselves with authority, calling into question the common view that Middle East photography was tied to Euro-American influences. Instead, these photographs challenge assumptions about gender, class, and race. Reading Marie al-Khazen's Photographs uses the lens of one woman's oeuvre to explore her legacy, and touch upon a broader social history of life in contemporary Lebanon" -- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781350191624 (pbk.)
1350191620

Subject:

Al-Khazen, Marie, 1899-1983 Criticism and interpretation.
Portrait photography Women.
Women Lebanon Social conditions 20th century Pictorial works.
Femmes Liban Conditions sociales 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Portraits (Photographie) Femmes.
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Women Social conditions
Lebanon Social conditions 20th century Pictorial works.
Lebanon Social life and customs 20th century Pictorial works.
Liban Conditions sociales 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Lebanon

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Al-Khazen, Marie, 1899-1983. Works. Selections.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317938
Call No.: 317938
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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