Ali Behdad, Mediated Visions: Early Photography of the Middle East and Orientalist Network (2017)
Notes: - focus on John Cramb 1860s photographs of Jerusalem, Maxime Du Camp 1849-50 photographs of Egypt, Auguste Salzmann 1854 photographs of Jerusalem - Solomon-Godeau : distinctions among the aims and functions of early photographs of the Middle East have been neglected -> there is no artistic intentionality in e.g. Salzmanns "documentary" photography -> erases old meaning of this "Travel" photography and fills with new (artistic) meaning - Behdad : to understand the photographs properly the orientalist network must be studied, since the production of these photographs was participated within them - the images not only show the intentions of the indiviual actors but also "the overlapping systems of repesentation and politico-cultral relations between the West and so-called "Orient"p. 363 - base of theory: Bruno Latour , actor-network theory, in: Reassembling the Social -"attributionof human, unhuman, nonhuman, inhuman, characterist...