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Record Nr.

UNISA996483165603316

Autore

Tamari Salim

Titolo

Camera Palaestina : Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine / / Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-520-38289-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

New Directions in Palestinian Studies ; ; 5

Disciplina

956.940022/2

Soggetti

HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine

Jerusalem History 20th century Pictorial works

Palestine History 20th century Pictorial works

Jerusalem Description and travel

Palestine Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- 1 Ways of Seeing the Palestinian Visual Archive -- 2 The Archival and Narrative Nature of the Photographic Albums of Wasif Jawhariyyeh -- 3. Visual Interlude: Photographic Images from Ottoman and Mandate Palestine -- 4. Patronage and Photography: Hussein Hashim’s Melancholic Journey -- 5. Our Photography: Refusing the 1948 Partition of the Sensible -- 6. Epilogue: The Presence and Potential of Palestine -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shedding new light on this foundational period, the authors explore not



just major historical events and the development of an urban bourgeois lifestyle but a social field of vision of Palestinian life as exemplified in the Jerusalem community. Tracking the interplay between photographic images, the authors offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience from the living past to the living present of Arab Palestine.