This publication is produced after group exhibition of Lebanese artists Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari of the same title held in Awab Image Foundation in May 2002.
Raad is a contemporary media artist, while Zaatari is a film-maker, photographer, archival artist and curator. They present geographically and culturally specific photographic works that raise questions about portraiture, performance, photography and identity. Starting with the proliferation of portrait photographic practices in the Arab world in the early to mid-20th century - passport to photographs and street portrait photographs by itinerant photographers, the book moves on to examine how the photographic portrait functioned in the Arab world as a description of individuals and groups, and an inscription of social identities. Edited and designed by Karl Bassil, Zeina Masssri, and Akram Zaatari, the exhibition and the research project is compiled and organized into this single entity.
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2005
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Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography
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