The American Colony Photography Department: Western Consumption and "Insider" Commercial Photography
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: In Jerusalem during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire-from the last decade of the nineteenth century to the occupation by British forces in 1917, and on into the Mandate period-the place to be for local professional photography was the bustling tourist-commercial area of the Old City near Jaffa Gate and on The Jaffa Road.This part of the city was home at the turn of the century to two of Jerusalem's most prominent portrait studios: one operated by Garabed Krikorian (opened in 1885, and operated later by his son, Hovahnnes), and the other by Krikorian's one-time apprentice, Khalil Ra'ad.The Levantine Ra'ad apprenticed with Krikorian in 1890 before setting up his own independent business.The house of Krikorian in turn owed its beginnings to the tutelage of the Armenian patriarch, Yessayi Garabedian, who pioneered local depictions by resident photographers-as opposed to visiting European daguerreotypists and Orientalist painters-in the mid-nineteenth century.Jerusalem.The Old City.
Source: Jerusalem Quarterly
DOI: 10.70190/jq.i44.p28
Author: Barbara Bair
Language: English
Topic: Photographic and Visual Arts
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Princeton University
OpenAlex ID: W4409165015