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Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World: Photography in Erzerum, Harput, Van and Beyond

by David Low
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780755600380
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 28.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, and Minority Studies

The Armenian contribution to Ottoman photography is supposedly well known, with histories documenting the famous Ottoman Armenian-run studios of the imperial capital that produced Orientalist visions for tourists and images of modernity for a domestic elite. Neglected, however, have been the practitioners of the eastern provinces where the majority of Ottoman Armenians were to be found, with the result that their role in the medium has been obscured and wider Armenian history and experience distorted. Photography in the Ottoman East was grounded in very different concerns, with the work of studios rooted in the seismic social, political and cultural shifts that reshaped the region and Armenian lives during the empire's last decades.

The first study of its kind, this book examines photographic activity in three sites on the Armenian plateau: Erzurum, Harput and Van. Arguing that local photographic practices were marked by the dominant activities and movements of these places, it describes a medium bound up in educational endeavours, mass migration and revolutionary politics. The camera both responded to and became the instrument of these phenomena. Light is shone on previously unknown practitioners and, more vitally, a perspective gained on the communities that they served. The book suggests that by contemplating the ways in which photographs were made, used, circulated and seen, we might form a picture of the Ottoman Armenian world.

Low, David: - David Low is a photographic historian specialising in the photography of the Ottoman Armenian world, and the wider intersections between photography, migration and exile. Currently Visiting Scholar, at the AGBU Nubar Library, Paris, France, he received his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK, and has published articles in peer-review journals such as International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies and Études arméniennes contemporaines.

Matossian, Bedross Der: - Bedross Der Matossian is Professor of Modern Middle East history and the Hymen Rosenberg Professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of multiple books including Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire (2014) and The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century (2022). He serves on the editorial board of journals including the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).

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