Ken Jacobson shows that the history of Orientalist photography begins weeks after the invention of photography itself. Jacobson is not an academic, but has cond

Simon Goldhill offers a fascinating new perspective on the material culture of nineteenth-century Britain.

The first history of indigenous photography in the Middle East The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East,

Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the medium, while shedding light on n

The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical