Contributions

  • Frith, Francis. - Contributor

Publication

2004 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

59,750 words, Guess

Page Count

239 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing491996

Classifications

  • LCCTR790 .N53 2004

Description

"In 1856 the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith Systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites." "Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine narrates the political, intellectual, and social concerns that make Frith representative of England's encounter with the East in the nineteenth century. Historian of photography Douglas R. Nickel brings a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to bear on the subject in order to expose the complexity of Frith's image-making, setting the photographs against a Victorian backdrop of religious debate, imperialist thought. Romantic philosophy, and Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryFrith, FrancisEgypt, historyPictorial worksTravel photographyPalestine, historyFrith, francis, 1822-1898

People

Genres

  • Pictorial works.

Other Editions

  • Francis Frith in Egypt and PalestinePrinceton University Press2004

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