Main entry:

Howe, Kathleen Stewart, author.

Title & Author:

Revealing the Holy Land : the photographic exploration of Palestine / essay by Kathleen Stewart Howe.

Publication:

Santa Barbara, CA : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1997.
Berkeley : University of California Press

Description:

144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140) and index.
Foreword / Karen Sinsheimer -- Palestine and the nineteenth century / Nitza Rosovsky -- Revealing the Holy Land: ninetheenth-century photographs of Palestine / Kathleen Stewart Howe -- Map of Ottoman Palestine -- Notes -- Plates -- Chronology -- Biography of James Mcdonald -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.

Exhibitions:

Exhibition itinerary: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, January 29-May 31, 1998; University of New Mexico Art Museum, October 13-December 13, 1998; St. Louis Art Museum, February 23-May 23, 1999.

Summary:

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 surveyors--all 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. --Publisher's description.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0899510949 (hardcover)
9780899510941 (hardcover)
0899510957 (softcover)
9780899510958 (softcover)

Subject:

Wilson, Michael G., 1942- Photograph collections.
Wilson, Michael.
Wilson, Jane.
Photography Palestine History 19th century.
Photographie Palestine Histoire 19e siècle.
15.75 history of Asia.
Photography
Photography Israel Exhibitions.
Photographie Palestine Catalogues d'exposition.
Palestine Pictorial works.
Middle East Palestine
Palestine.
Eretz Israel History 19th century Exhibitions.
Eretz Israel History 1917-1947 Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Palestine Dans l'art Catalogues d'exposition.
Geschichte
Photography History 19th century Palestine

Form/genre:

Exhibition
exhibition catalogs.
History
Pictorial works (form)
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Sinsheimer, Karen, writer of foreword.
Rosovsky, Nitza, contributor.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, host institution, publisher.
University of New Mexico. Art Museum, host institution.
St. Louis Art Museum, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191891
Call No.: TR113.5 .H6 (ID:97-B2940)
Status: Available