{"product_id":"mirrors-with-memories-von-staci-gem-scheiwiller","title":"Mirrors with Memories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the success of the Revolution in 1979 and the  transformation of Iran into a theocratic democracy  in the 1980s, imagery from the nineteenth century  began to appear in Iranian visual culture, from  theatre and film to painting and photography. These  appropriations include nineteenth-century  photographs taken by Iranians, fashions, and symbols  of the Iranian Empire, such as the Lion and the Sun.  In \"Mirrors with Memories,\" Scheiwiller investigates  the uses of such images by contemporary Iranian  photographers. She argues that the reconstructions  of the past in these artists'' photographs are spaces  that contest \"official\" memory and history. The act  of remembering becomes one of protest and helps to  reintegrate the perspectives of previously excluded  segments of society. The settings that figure  predominately in these photographs are the harem and  the photography studio. There is a fascinating and  deeply significant analogical relationship between  these two spaces as sites for the deconstruction of  the narratives of nationhood,  modernization, and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783844313475\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNineteenth-Century and Qajar Imagery in Contemporary Iranian Photography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783844313475","offer_id":39495972716637,"sku":"9783844313475","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/4d9b2f70-6713-4d17-be80-e925126070ad.jpg?v=1775195372","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/mirrors-with-memories-von-staci-gem-scheiwiller","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}