Akram Zaatari
After They Got the Right to Arms. Fourteen young men posing with guns.
early 1970s/2006
Gelatin silver prints
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These photographs are part of a larger project in which the artist Akram Zaatari has explored the archive of photographer Hashem El Madani. From 1948 to 2008, Madani operated a photography studio in Saida, Lebanon, where he produced hundreds of thousands of photographs—mostly studio portraits. In Zaatari’s presentations of selections of Madani’s portraits—in this example, photos of men posing with guns—the images become as much about the ever-shifting personal, historical, artistic, and economic value of photographs as they are about the individuals pictured, whose names are unknown to us.
Seeing Through Photographs online course, Coursera, 2016
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Gelatin silver print (developing-out paper)
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Investigating identity
Identity is the way we perceive and express ourselves. Factors such as race, ethnicity, or gender—often play a role in defining our identity. However, many aspects of a our identities change throughout our lives.
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An approach to photography that involves making pictures, chiefly portraits and still lifes, within the tightly controlled spatial environment of the photographer's studio.
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