View From Inside

contemporary Arab photography, video and mixed media art

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ISBN: 9789053308257
Uitgever: Schilt Publishing B.V.
Verschijningsvorm: Hardcover
Auteur: Karin Adrian von Roques Wendy Watriss Samer Mohdad Claude W. Sui
Druk: 1
Pagina's: 304
Taal: Engels
Verschijningsjaar: 2014
NUR: Fotografie, film, video als kunstvormen

View From Inside is a comprehensive presentation of contemporary Arab photography, video and mixed media art from the Middle East and North Africa. The book shows the works of 49 leading Arab artists from 13 countries. The works reflect the emergence of photographic, video and digital art as important forms of creative visual expression in the Arab world over the past twenty years. The artworks address a broad range of issues that the artists themselves have defined as important to the modern Arab experience.

This stunning book contains over 200 reproductions of artworks by Arab artists and is a co-production between Schilt Publishing and FotoFest International.

About the authors of this book

The four texts in this book cover the early appearance of photography in the Middle East and North

Africa in the mid-nineteenth century through photography's evolution as an integral part of the contemporary Arab art world. The author of the lead essay on contemporary photographic art is the

pioneering curator and expert on classical Islamic art and contemporary Arab art, Karin Adrian von Roques. Ms. Von Roques has worked in the Middle East and North Africa for more than two decades, bringing important contemporary Arab art to museum audiences in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Essays on the history of Arab photographic expression have been written by Samer Mohdad, a well known Lebanese photographer, writer and co-founder of the Fondation de l'Image Arabe in Beirut, and Dr. Claude W. Sui, chief curator of the International Forum of Photography at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany and curator of exhibitions on nineteenth century photography in Arabia and To the Holy Lands: Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem.

Mona Khazindar, Director General of the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris sheds her light on the history of modern Arab photography and its relationship to contemporary art. Wendy Watriss, Senior Curator and Artistic Director for FotoFest International has written the introductory essay.

The artists introduced in this book are:

Ebtisam AbdulAziz

Khalil Abdul Wahid

Ammar Al-Beik

Manal AlDowayan

Shadia Alem

Reem Al Faisal

Sadik Alfraji

Tarek Al-Ghoussein

Boushra Almutawakel

Khalifa Al Obaidly

Jowhara AlSaud

Sama Alshaibi

Karima Al-Shomely

Sami Al Turki

Tammam Azzam

Lara Baladi

Hicham Benohoud

Ayman Yossri Daydban

Shady El Noshokaty

Ayman El Semary

Lalla Essaydi

Mounir Fatmi

Lamya Gargash

Abdulnasser Gharem

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

Khaled Hafez

Hassan Hajjaj

Rula Halawani

Nermine Hammam

Hazem Harb

Hazem Taha Hussein

Georges Fikry Ibrahim

Noel Jabbour

Ahmed Jadallah

Mohamed Kanoo

Mohammed Kazem

Huda Lutfi

Maha Malluh

Ahmed Mater

Hassan Meer

Samer Mohdad

Youssef Nabil

Ayman Ramadan

Steve Sabella

Faisal Samra

Wael Shawky

Camille Zakharia

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