Reading Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs

Gender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon

Yasmine Nachabe Taan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-19162-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Yasmine Nachabe Taan is Associate Professor in Visual Culture and Graphic and Fashion Design History at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on transliteration
Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Travel Photography, Amateur Photography, and Locality
Chapter 3: Were there Female Photographers in the Region?
Chapter 4: Producing an Alternative Space: Destabilizing Fixed Images of Womanhood
Chapter 5: Women, Politics, and Portraiture during the French Mandate
Chapter 6: Modernity as Expressed in the Photographs
Chapter 7: “Successful Failures,” or Marie al-Khazen’s Photographic Experiments

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Dress Cultures
Zusatzinfo	53 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-19162-0 / 1350191620
ISBN-13	978-1-350-19162-4 / 9781350191624
Zustand	Neuware