In Arab Lands  -  Haller

The Bonfils Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum

KORTE INHOUD

From street scenes to portraits, landscapes to architectural studies, this fascinating collection of photographs allows us to glimpse a time and way of life now past: Ottoman Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
P. Felix Bonfils was the first French photographer, and one of the first European photographers, to settle in the Near East, establishing a studio in Beirut in 1867. He is credited with introducing the genre of Near Eastern photographic portraiture, and the select...
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2000 Uitgever: Amer Univ in Cairo Pr 96 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 9774245695 ISBN-13: 9789774245695