Photography and politics in Iran in the Naseri period (1848-1896)
Author
Sümbül, Kimya Oskay
Advisor
Özel, Oktay
Date
2018-06Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
This dissertation is written to address the history of photography of Iran during the reign
of Naser al-Din Shah. The fundamental characteristic of this period is breaking new
ground in social and political realms. During this period, Iran was introduced to the
vast usages of photography employed both by the state and society, as well as a politicized
society condemning the Shah as the illegitimate ruler. Consequently, nine years
after the assassination of the Shah, usage of photography and politicization of society
gained a decisive thrust. With the avail of the socio-politic dynamics of the era, this dissertation
discusses the Legitimation Crisis of the Shah and utilization from photographs
as political tools. We initiated this study to investigate the mutual effect between the
political realm and the photographs of the era. Therefore, to see how the political realm
of a past country, which adverted diversified photographic usages, can be reverberated
through the photographs, exercising an interpretive strategy of reading outward from the
photographic images coherent with the socio-politic parameters of the era is pursued.