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Auteur(s) : Taan, Yasmine
Titre(s) : Reading Marie al-Khazen's photographs [Texte imprimé] : gender, photography, Mandate Lebanon / Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury visual arts, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII, 172 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Dress cultures
Lien à la collection : Dress cultures
Note(s) : Illustrations, photo images: "courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation". - Includes bibliographical references and index
"The Lebanese photographer Marie al-Khazen seized every opportunity to use her camera
during the years that she was active between 1920 and 1940. She not only documented
her travels around tourist sites in Lebanon but also sought creative experimentation
with her camera by staging scenes, manipulating shadows, and superimposing negatives
to produce different effects in her prints. Within her photographs, bedouins and European
friends, peasants and landlords, men and women comfortably share the same space. Her
photographs include an intriguing collection portraying her family and friends living
their everyday lives in 1920s and '30s Zgharta, a village in the north of Lebanon.
Yasmine Nachabe Taan explores these photographs, emphasizing the ways in which notions
of gender and class are inscribed within them and revealing how they are charged with
symbols of women's emancipation to today's viewers, through women's presence as individuals,
separate from family restrictions of that time. Images in which women are depicted
smoking cigarettes, driving cars, riding horses, and accompanying men on hunting trips
counteract the common ways in which women were portrayed in contemporary Lebanon"
Sujet(s) : Al-Khazen, Marie (1899-1983)
Indice(s) Dewey :
770.956 92 (23e éd.) = Photographie, art par ordinateur, cinématographie, vidéographie - Liban
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781788314800 (rel.). - ISBN 1788314808. - ISBN 9781350111578 (erroné). - ISBN
9781350111585 (erroné). - ISBN 9781350111592 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46704652c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46704652
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Table des matières : Travel photography, amateur photography, and locality ; Were there female photographers
in the region? ; Producing an alternative space : destabilizing fixed images of womanhood
; Women, politics, and portraiture during the French Mandate ; Modernity as expressed
in the photographs ; "Successful failures," or, Marie a-Khazen's photographic experiments.
