Mapping Sitting
Subtitle: On Portraiture And Photography
By: A book by Karl Bassil, Zeina Maasri and Akram Zaatari in collaboration with Walid Raad. A project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari.
Contributors: Karl Bassil (Editor); Zeina Maasri (Editor); Akram Zaatari (Editor)
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Arab Image Foundation/Mind the Gap
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789953004129
Subjects: Subjects & Themes - Portraits; Photoessays & Documentaries; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Photography; Photo Techniques; Photography / Portraits; Middle East - General; Arab countries; Arabs; Portrait photography; Portraits; Graphic arts; Middle Eastern studies; Cultural studies
Description: “In Mapping Sitting we present geographically and culturally speciﬁc photographic works that raise questions about portraiture, performance, photography and identity in general…”

“…The process of writing imposed merging design and editing into a single entity, where ‘book’ cannot be dissociated from ‘content’…”
Notes: Contains 905 photographs from Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan, taken between the 1920s and 1970s.

First published by Mind the gap and the Arab Image Foundation in 2002 to coincide with:
Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography,
An exhibition by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, Arab Image Foundation,
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, May 4-26, 2002.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: ID; title: Group; title: Itinerant; title: Surprise; title: Register