Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate (19181948). 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.
Author(s): Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 458
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Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Transliteration
Chapter 1 Imaging and Imagining Palestine: An Introduction
Part 1 In and out of the Archives: Photographic Collections and the Historical Case Studies
Chapter 2 ‘Little Orphans of Jerusalem’: The American Colony’s Christian Herald Orphanage in Photographs and Negatives
Chapter 3 Swedish Imaginings, Investments and Local Photography in Jerusalem, 1925–1939
Chapter 4 The Dominicans’ Photographic Collectionin Jerusalem: Beyond a Catholic Perception of the Holy Land?
Chapter 5 Bearers of Memory: Photo Albums as Sources of Historical Study in Palestine
Part 2 Points of Perspective: Photographers and Their Lens
Chapter 6 Resilient Resistance: Colonial Biblical, Archaeological and Ethnographical Imaginaries in the Work of Chalil Raad (Khalīl Raʿd), 1891–1948
Chapter 7 Open Roads: John D. Whiting, Diary in Photos, 1934–1939
Chapter 8 Documenting the Social: Frank Scholten Taxonomising Identity in British Mandate Palestine
Part 3 After Effects: Methodologies, Approaches and Reconceptualising Photography
Chapter 9 Edward Keith-Roach’s Favourite Things: Indigenising National Geographic’s Images of Mandatory Palestine
Chapter 10 Decolonising the Photography of Palestine: Searching for a Method in a Plate of Hummus
Chapter 11 Urban Encounters: Imaging the City in Mandate Palestine
Chapter 12 Epilogue
Abstracts
Index
