Photo Surprise
Item Overview
- Title
- Photo Surprise
- Photographer
- Photo Jack
- Date Created
- ca.1954
- Date
- 1950/1960
- Collection
-
The Photo Surprise Archive of Photo Jack
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Notes
- Description
- This digital contact sheet reflects a half a roll of photographs taken by Studio Photo Jack (1945-1997) in Tripoli, Lebanon. The photographers worked on reportage photography, a form of commercial photography practiced outside the Studio and covering various social, cultural and religious occasions. Their main photography style was called “Photo Surprise", which is a practice that was common in the Middle East between the 1940s and 1960s. They walked the public square of Tal in Tripoli photographing pedestrians - some posing and others caught candidly in their stride. They then invited their subjects to return to the studio to purchase and collect their photographs. A film roll with intimate snapshots of a family seen in sequence gives the impression of constant movement around the Tal. Images of officials and public figures are intercepted by images of baptisms, funerals, birthdays, and parties; adding a strange familiarity to the Tal and the faces of the people walking around.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 20 photographs
- Dimensions
- 3.6 cm x 2.4 cm
- Medium
- Gelatin silver negative roll on cellulose acetate film base
Keywords
- Genre
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject Geographic
-
Lebanon
Tripoli (Lebanon) - Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
self-presentation
attitudes and poses
public visibility
military uniform
photography--business methods
fashion--history--20th century
family ties
street photography
fridge
dancing
tricycle
photo surprise
children's fashion
soldier
doll
public spaces
childhood
urban anthropology
women's fashion
snapshot
house party
modern fashion
candid photography
Find This Item
- Repository
- Arab Image Foundation
- Local Identifier
-
0069fa0327-ob05-co6500-6500_0001
box 05
0069fa0327 - ARK
- ark:/21198/z11p3m14
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- hello@arabimagefoundation.org