Photographic Practices and the Egyptian Imaginary: Evidence of What? The Photographic Archive and Its Problematics

Photographic Practices and the Egyptian Imaginary: Evidence of What? The Photographic Archive and Its Problematics

Heba Farid

Department

Cairo Papers in Social Science

Abstract

This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of Cairo Papers 19th Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in spring 2010. It also integrates commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is a paper that deals with the 25 January Revolution and the visual productions and effects thereof. How was the revolution experienced through the visual production of everyday life on the square? And how and what forms of visual engagements allow us to tell different façades of experiences and demands that occasioned the revolution? Cairo Papers in Social Science 31:3/7

Publication Date

2008

Document Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Visual Productions of Knowledge Toward a Different Middle East

Editors

Hanan Sabea, Mark Westmoreland

ISBN

9789774165092

Publisher

American University in Cairo Press

City

Cairo

First Page

53

Last Page

78

Series

Cairo Papers in Social Science 31(3/4)

Keywords

visual production, middle east, photographic practices, Egypt, imaginary, knowledge production, arts, film

Photographic Practices and the Egyptian Imaginary: Evidence of What? The Photographic Archive and Its Problematics

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