Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of PalestineUniversity of California Press, 1997 - 144 páginas This is the catalog for an exhibition of ninety nineteenth-century photographs drawn primarily from the world-class collection of Michael G. Wilson. Included are the starkly beautiful photographs of Sergeant James McDonald's surveys of Palestine and Jerusalem; recently discovered photographs by Ernest Benecke; and the rare photographs by Maxime Du Camp taken in 1850 as he traveled with Flaubert. With the invention of photography and the increasing popularity of travel in the mid-nineteenth century, the Holy Land became one of the most photographed places on earth. Interest in Jerusalem and Palestine was particularly pronounced in England, partly because of England's need to control its routes to the riches of India, but also because of Britain's cultural identification with the people and lands of the Bible. Imperial ambition and deeply ingrained cultural associations resulted in a surge of photographic activity in Palestine. McDonald's photographs from surveys of Jerusalem and the Sinai epitomize the dual imperatives of Bible and Empire. Photography provided a new standard for authenticity in pictorial representations. Early photographs were considered the ultimate bearers of "reality" at a time when viewers had not yet lost their naive faith in the objective accuracy of photography. Throughout the last half of the nineteenth century, the Holy Land drew legions of photographers: amateurs recording a stop on the Grand Tour, academics pursuing archaeological theories, military surveyorsall trying to capture the truthfulness of a land that had enormous spiritual, emotional, and political connotations for most of the Western world. What they saw, and how they saw it, are the themes of this beautifully recorded collection." |
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Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine Kathleen Stewart Howe Pré-visualização limitada - 1997 |
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1/2 inches Michael 1854 Salted paper 1862 Albumen print 1864 From Photographs album ancient archaeological Auguste Salzmann German Bible biblical British calotype Captain Palmer Captain Wilson Christian Church Collection Auguste Salzmann Collection Sergeant James Colonel James Conder daguerreotypes East Egypt England English active expedition Felix Beato English Flaubert Francis Bedford Francis Frith Francis Frith English Frank Mason Girault de Prangey Holy Land Holy Sepulchre illustrations Jaffa James McDonald English Jane Wilson Collection Jerusalem Albumen print Jerusalem and Palestine Jewish Jews Louis De Clercq Mason Good English Maxime Du Camp McDonald's photographs Michael and Jane nineteenth century Ordnance Survey Palestine Exploration Fund panoramas Peninsula of Sinai Photographs of Jerusalem religious Reverend George Royal Engineers Salted paper print Santa Barbara Museum Sergeant James McDonald Sergeant McDonald Sinai Peninsula Survey of Jerusalem tographs Tombs travelers views Volume 1 Albumen Wady walls Wilson Collection Auguste Wilson Collection Francis Wilson Collection Sergeant
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