Photo Surprise
Item Overview
- Title
- Photo Surprise
- Photographer
- Photo Jack
- Date Created
- ca.1953
- 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
-
Tripoli (Lebanon)
Lebanon - Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
photo surprise
snapshot
women's fashion
photography--business methods
fashion--history--20th century
public visibility
veil
modern fashion
street photography
self-presentation
attitudes and poses
children's fashion
urban anthropology
public spaces
candid photography
Find This Item
- Repository
- Arab Image Foundation
- Local Identifier
-
box 02
0069fa0327
0069fa0327-ob02-co5818-5818-0001 - ARK
- ark:/21198/z16q7h19
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- hello@arabimagefoundation.org