Imaging and imagining Palestine: photography, modernity and the biblical lens, 1918-1948

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"Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918-1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary volume argues that photography is central to a different understanding of the social and political complexities of Palestine in this period. While Biblical and Orientalist images abound, the chapters in this book go further by questioning the impact of photography on the social histories of British Mandate Palestine. This book considers the specific archives, the work of individual photographers, methods for reading historical photography from the present and how we might begin the process of decolonising photography"--Publisher's description.

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1. Imaging and imagining Palestine : an introduction / Sary Zananiri -- pt. 1 In and out of the archives : photographic collections and the historical case studies -- 2. "Little orphans of Jerusalem" : the American Colony's Christian Herald Orphanage in photographs and negatives / Abigail Jacobson -- 3. Swedish imaginings, investments and local photography in Jerusalem, 1925 -- 1939 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug -- 4. The Dominicans' photographic collection in Jerusalem : beyond a Catholic perception of the Holy Land? / Karène Sanchez Summerer -- 5. Bearers of memory : photo albums as sources of historical study in Palestine / Issam Nassar -- pt. 2 Points of perspective : photographers and their lens -- 6. Resilient resistance : colonial biblical, archaeological and ethnographical imaginaries in the work of Chalil Raad (Khalll Ra'd), 1891 -- 1948 / Rona Seta -- 7. Open roads : John D. Whiting, diary in photos, 1934 -- 1939 / Rachel Lev -- 8. Documenting the social : Frank Scholten taxonomising identity in British Mandate Palestine / Sary Zananiri -- pt. 3 After effects : methodologies, approaches and reconceptualising photography -- 9. Edward Keith-Roach's favourite things : indigenising National Geographic's images of Mandatory Palestine / Yazan Kopty -- 10. Decolonising the photography of Palestine : searching for a method in a plate of hummus / Stephen Sheehi -- 11. Urban encounters : imaging the city in Mandate Palestine / Nadi Abusaada -- 12. Epilogue / Aude Aylin De Tapia.