Title & Author:

Africa then : photographs, 1840-1918 / edited and with an introductory text by Nicolas Monti.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1987.

Description:

viii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-175).
Introduction : Another place, another time ; Photography in Africa -- False dawn : exploration and discovery -- The long interlude : expansion and colonization -- The African -- The African Venus -- Nature : landscape and the noble savage -- Progress : the machine and great engineering works -- The white man's vision of himself and the changed African.

ISBN:

0394555783
9780394555782

Subject:

Africa.
history.
1800-1899.
1900-1999.
pictorial works (form)
15.80 history of Africa.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Alltag
Foto's.
Africa Pictorial works.
Africa History 1884-1918 Pictorial works.
Africa Description and travel Views.
Afrique Ouvrages illustrés.
Afrique Histoire 1884-1918 Ouvrages illustrés.
Afrika
1840-1918

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Books.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Monti, Nicolas, editor, writer of introduction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 144162
Call No.: ID:87-B10613
Status: Available