Research Catalog

Title

Picturing the Ottoman Armenian world : photography in Erzurum, Harput, Van and beyond / David Low.

Author

Low, David

Publication

• London : I.B. Tauris, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xvi, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"The Armenian contribution to Ottoman photography in the last decades of the empire has been well-documented. Studios founded and run by Armenian Ottomans in Istanbul contributed to the exciting cultural flourishing of Ottoman 'modernity', before its dissolution after World War I. Less known however are the pioneering studios from the east in the empire's Armenian heartlands, whose photographic output reflected and became a major form of documenting the momentous events and changes of the period, from war and revolution to persecution, migration and ultimately, genocide. This book examines photographic activity in three Armenian cities on the Armenian plateau: Erzurum, Kharpert and Van. It explores how indigenous photography was rooted in the seismic social, political and cultural shifts that shaped Armenian lives during the Ottoman Empire's last four decades. Arguing that photographic practice was marked by the era's central movements, it shows how photography was bound-up in Armenian educational endeavours, mass migration and revolutionary activity. Photography responded to and became the instrument of these phenomena, so much so that it can be shown that they were responsible for the very spread of the medium through the Armenian communities of the Ottoman East and the rapid increase in photographic studios. Contributing to growing interest in Ottoman and Middle Eastern photographic history, the book also offers a valuable perspective on the history of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire"--

Series Statement

Armenians in the modern and early modern world

Uniform Title

Armenians in the modern and early modern world.

Subject

• 1288-1999
• Photography > Turkey > Harput > History > 20th century
• Photography > Turkey > Van > History > 20th century
• Photography > Turkey > Erzurum İli > History > 20th century
• Workshops > Armenia > History > 20th century
• Photography
• Workshops
• Armenia > History > 20th century
• Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Armenia
• Turkey
• Turkey > Erzurum İli
• Turkey > Harput
• Turkey > Van
• Armenia (Republic)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-245) and index.

Contents

Escaping Constantinople, or a Little History of Photography in the Ottoman Empire -- Approaching the Provinces, via Trebizond -- Beginning in Erzurum -- Leaving Harput -- Returning to Van -- Looking Forward, Looking Back -- Sailing Away From a Conclusion.

Call Number

JQE 23-33

ISBN

• 9780755600397
• 0755600398

OCLC

1328027618

Author

Low, David, author.

Title

Picturing the Ottoman Armenian world : photography in Erzurum, Harput, Van and beyond / David Low.

Publisher

London : I.B. Tauris, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Armenians in the modern and early modern world

Armenians in the modern and early modern world.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-245) and index.

Chronological Term

1288-1999

Other Form:

Electronic version: Low, David (Photographic historian). Picturing the Ottoman Armenian world. First edition. London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2022 9780755600427 (OCoLC)1295828139

Research Call Number

JQE 23-33