Pedram Khosronejad (dir.), Untold Stories. The socio-cultural life of images in Qajar Era Iran, Berlin, LIT Verlag, 2015, 160 p.
In Iran, the history of photography and cinematography is mired with doubts and ambiguities. Whilst academic debates have focused on Qajar photography and cinematography from the viewpoint of historical analyses and technical aspects, there does not appear to be any anthropological, and particularly, visual anthropological research on these two important visual mediums. This book presents first results using visual anthropology, ethnographical film, media and visual studies as a methodological framework .
Contents
Foreword
Photographic documentation of Tazieh and Taqlid during the Qajar era
Ali Gholipoor
The disfigured and the abnormal captured by the lens of Qajar era photographers
Alireza Nabipoor
Photography and recognizing historical changes of the Qajar era: a new historical view
Ali Mohammad Tarafdari
Comparative analysis of Iranian and foreign photographers’ representations of the Qajar era
Abbas Amiri
Back in the picture: early film techniques used to capture the Qajar era
Alex Fischer
Portraiture in Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire: a comparative approach
Basak Kilerci
Tracking a modern visual element through two similar conditions of chaos
Siamak Hajimohammad
Bibliography
Index