Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East, Ali Behdad. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2016. 208 pages, with 84 colour and black & white illustrations. Softcover $30.00, ISBN 978-0-226-35640-2.The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910, Stephen Sheehi. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2016. 221 pages, with 76 black & white illustrations. Hardcover $40.00 / £37.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15132-8.