Product Description
Setting up on a sunny day at the beach or snapping a passport photo, the studio photographer measures out his working day in repeated frames, fixing the ordinary customer on film. Addressing the enduring value of these portraits and the viewer’s common humanity with the subjects is the aim of Mapping Sitting, a collection of studio photographs, primarily from the 1950s and 60s, that shows an Arab world that defies stereotypes. Drawn from the archives of the Arab Im… More >>
Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture And Photography
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