Main entry:

Nickel, Douglas R. (Douglas Robert), 1961-

Title & Author:

Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine : a Victorian photographer abroad / Douglas R. Nickel.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes statements by Francis Frith.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-231) and index.
Maps of Frith's Travels -- Introduction: A Victorian Photographer Abroad -- 1. The Automatic Machinery of Circumstance -- 2. Spirit Facts: Biography as History -- 3. Egypt, the Greatest Sensation -- 4. Photographed and Described -- 5. A Fulcrum for My Lever -- 6. Religion as Science, Science as Philosophy -- 7. A Christian Positivist -- 8. The View from Above -- 9. Self-Portrait in Eastern Costume -- Conclusion: A Sermon in Stones.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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

ISBN:

069111515X (alk. paper)
9780691115153

Subject:

Frith, Francis.
Travel photography Egypt.
Travel photography Palestine.
Photographie de voyage Égypte.
Photographie de voyage Palestine.
Travel photography.
Egypt History Pictorial works.
Palestine History Pictorial works.
Palestine Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Egypt.
Middle East Palestine.

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
History.
Pictorial works.

Added entries:

Frith, Francis.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230358
Call No.: TR140.F919 N4 2003
Status: Available