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100	1		_aYasmine Taan
245	1	0	_aReading Marie al-Khazen's Photographs: _bGender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon
264		1	_aLondon; _aNew York: _bBloomsbury Visual Arts, _c2020
300			_a172 p., _bill.; _c24 cm
490	0		_aDress Cultures
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aTravel photography, amateur photography, and locality -- Were there female photographers in the region? -- Producing an alternative space : destabilizing fixed images of womanhood -- Women, politics, and portraiture during the French Mandate -- Modernity as expressed in the photographs -- "Successful failures," or, Marie a-Khazen's photographic experiments.
520			_a"The Lebanese photographer Marie al-Khazen seized every opportunity to use her camera during the years that she was active between 1920 and 1940. She not only documented her travels around tourist sites in Lebanon but also sought creative experimentation with her camera by staging scenes, manipulating shadows, and superimposing negatives to produce different effects in her prints. Within her photographs, bedouins and European friends, peasants and landlords, men and women comfortably share the same space. Her photographs include an intriguing collection portraying her family and friends living their everyday lives in 1920s and '30s Zgharta, a village in the north of Lebanon. Yasmine Nachabe Taan explores these photographs, emphasizing the ways in which notions of gender and class are inscribed within them and revealing how they are charged with symbols of women's emancipation to today's viewers, through women's presence as individuals, separate from family restrictions of that time. Images in which women are depicted smoking cigarettes, driving cars, riding horses, and accompanying men on hunting trips counteract the common ways in which women were portrayed in contemporary Lebanon"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aMarie Al-Khazen _d1899-1983 _xAppreciation
600	1	0	_aMohsen Yammine _xPhotograph collections
610	2	0	_aFondation Arabe pour l'mage _vPhotograph collections
650		0	_aVernacular photography _zLebanon _xHistory _y20th century
650		0	_aWomen photographers _zLebano
651		0	_aLebanon _xHistory _y20th century _vSources
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