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CATEGORIES:Visual and Creative Arts
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CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-UID=8a0870ee-4fa5a06e-014f-b3909cd1-00007542:Massung\, 
 David
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DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the concept of "photo-theologies" and the r
 ole of technology in broader debates about the camera's capacity to recor
 d and visualize the human body in Islamic lands. Through several key case
  studies\, I investigate and at times challenge often-quoted prohibitions
  and anxieties around printmaking and photography in the Muslim world. I 
 begin my examination with a printed manual of photography from nineteenth
 -century Iran\, which intertwines the novel technology of the Daguerreoty
 pe with a Shiʿite theological discourse on resurrection\, providing a poi
 gnant counterexample to Weberian disenchantment. I then turn to investiga
 ting fears around photographic images through a discussion of photomechan
 ical reproduction and circulation in Islamic lands\, specifically in the 
 shape of the portable picture postcard in the early twentieth century. Fi
 nally\, the talk scrutinizes fatwas (Islamic legal rulings) related to ph
 otography and their interconnection with longstanding photographic debate
 s\, enabling us to examine questions such as the purported truth-value an
 d evidentiary force of photography from an Islamic legal perspective. Thr
 ough these three foci\, it becomes apparent that many of the themes discu
 ssed at the advent of photography\, in both Islamic and non-Islamic lands
 \, are also echoed in contemporary Muslim discourses about the legality o
 f analogue as well as digital photography and AI-generated photorealistic
  images. An examination of image making\, figural imagery\, and the ontol
 ogy of the photographic image through the lens of "photo-theology" enable
 s an engagement with both picture logics and religious concepts\, thus al
 lowing a rethinking of key debates.\n \nMira Xenia Schwerda (PhD\, Harvar
 d University\, 2020) is a historian of photography and print culture. She
  is a co-editor of the journal Art in Translation. Her book manuscript-in
 -progress\, tentatively titled "Between Art and Propaganda: Photographing
  Revolution in Modern Iran (1905-1911)\," focuses on the art and visual c
 ulture of Iran's Constitutional Revolution. She has been awarded several 
 grants and fellowships for her research\, including the Getty/ACLS Postdo
 ctoral Fellowship and the Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship\, and has pu
 blished her research in peer-reviewed journals\, edited volumes\, and exh
 ibition catalogues. Dr. Schwerda also worked at the Harvard Art Museums\,
  where she curated the photography section of the 2016-17 exhibition Tech
 nologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran.
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SUMMARY:“Islamic Photo-Theologies: Thinking Through Image Making and the H
 uman Figure from the Camera to AI”
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