Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
- 186 p., ill.; 24 cm
- New Directions in Palestinian Studies; 5 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ways of seeing the Palestinian visual archive -- The archival and narrative structure of the photographic albums of Wasif Jawhariyyeh / Issam Nassar -- Visual interlude stirring times : photographic images from ottoman and mandate Palestine -- Patronage and Photography : Hussein Hashim's melancholic journey / Salim Tamari -- Our photography : refusing the 1948 partition plan of the sensible / Stephen Sheehi -- The potentials and presence of Palestine.
"Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Wasif Jawhariyyeh and his seven photography albums. Jawhariyyeh lived in Jerusalem from 1904 to 1972, and the nine hundred images in his albums chronicle a cultural history of Ottoman and Mandate 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 an emerging Palestinian aesthetic. Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, and Salim Tamari locate this photographic archive at the juncture between the history of photography in Palestine and the everyday social history of Palestine through photography. They offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience that constitutes an incontestable continuum of what is Arab Palestine, from its living past to its living present"--
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9780520382886
Wasif Jawhariyyeh 1897-1973
Palestine--Photography
Jerusalem--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Palestine--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Jerusalem--Description and travel
Palestine--Description and travel
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ways of seeing the Palestinian visual archive -- The archival and narrative structure of the photographic albums of Wasif Jawhariyyeh / Issam Nassar -- Visual interlude stirring times : photographic images from ottoman and mandate Palestine -- Patronage and Photography : Hussein Hashim's melancholic journey / Salim Tamari -- Our photography : refusing the 1948 partition plan of the sensible / Stephen Sheehi -- The potentials and presence of Palestine.
"Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Wasif Jawhariyyeh and his seven photography albums. Jawhariyyeh lived in Jerusalem from 1904 to 1972, and the nine hundred images in his albums chronicle a cultural history of Ottoman and Mandate 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 an emerging Palestinian aesthetic. Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, and Salim Tamari locate this photographic archive at the juncture between the history of photography in Palestine and the everyday social history of Palestine through photography. They offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience that constitutes an incontestable continuum of what is Arab Palestine, from its living past to its living present"--
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license. To view a copy of the license, visit
9780520382886
Wasif Jawhariyyeh 1897-1973
Palestine--Photography
Jerusalem--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Palestine--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Jerusalem--Description and travel
Palestine--Description and travel