Description: "This volume evolved from "Zoom out: the making and the unmaking of the 'Orient' through photography," held at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, May 6-7, 2010"--ECIP data view.
Brief description: Ali Behdad is the John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Review Quotes: "Nineteenth-century Indian photographers made portraits that borrow heavily from the conventions of Mughal miniatures. Early 20th-century Indian photographers did not wince from shooting graphic images of pro-independence protestors shot down by British Army rifles in demonstrations. And most interesting of all, this book is full of wonderful Ottoman photos--portraits, journalism, and magnificent panoramic landscapes that are essentially documents of empire, attesting to the depth, breadth and ethnic variety of the Sultan's domains."-- Art & Antiques