Light from the Middle East
Subtitle: new photography
By: Marta Weiss, with an essay by Venetia Porter, and contributions by Stephen Deuchar and Kate Best
Contributors: Porter, Venetia; Deuchar, Stephen; Best, Kate; Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: Steidl in association with V&A Publishing, London
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9783869305578
Subjects: Photography; Exhibitions; Artistic Photography; Artists; Interviews
Description: Light from the Middle East explores the various ways that contemporary Middle Eastern artists deploy the language and techniques of photography. Whether embracing the capacity of photography to record or bear witness, or subverting that process in order to highlight its susceptibility to manipulation and recontextualization, they use the medium to tell stories, to question, and to challenge. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (13 November 2012-7 April 2013), the first major museum exhibition of contemporary Middle Eastern photography. It presents over 25 artists from across the greater Middle East (including North Africa and Central Asia), whose multiple viewpoints are appropriate to a region where collisions between personal, social, religious and political life can be emotive and complex.
Notes: Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name held in the Porter Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Nov. 13, 2012-Apr. 7, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173).