Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World: Photography in Erzerum, Harput, Van and Beyond Low David
Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World: Photography in Erzerum, Harput, Van and Beyond Low David The Armenian contribution to Ottoman photography in the last decades of the empire has been…
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Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World: Photography in Erzerum, Harput, Van and Beyond Low David
The Armenian contribution to Ottoman photography in the last decades of the empire has been well-documented. 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. 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.
Arguing that 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.