Photography And Egypt
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Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs
Author | : Francis Frith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Priceless views of Egyptian and biblical antiquities as they looked in the mid-19th century, before war, neglect, and exploitation took their toll. 77 spectacular photographs of the Pyramids, Sphinx, Karnak, Luxor, Thebes, Mt. Horeb, Old Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Damascus, and more. Introduction. Captions.
Decolonizing images
Author | : Ronnie Close |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2024-02-06 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1526165945 |
The 2011 revolution put Egypt at the centre of discussions around radical transformations in global photographic cultures. But Egypt and photography share a longer, richer history rarely included in western accounts of the medium. Decolonizing images focuses on the country’s local visual heritage, continuing the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals. The book moves from the initial encounters between local knowledge and western-led modernity to explore how the image intersects with the politics of representation, censorship, activism and aesthetics. It overturns Eurocentric understandings of the photograph through a compelling narrative of contemporary Egypt’s indigenous visual culture.
Photographing Tutankhamun
Author | : Christina Riggs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000211649 |
They are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun; life-size statues of the boy king on guard beside a doorway, tantalizingly sealed, in his tomb; or a solid gold coffin still draped with flowers cut more than 3,300 years ago. Yet until now, no study has explored the ways in which photography helped mythologize the tomb of Tutankhamun, nor the role photography played in shaping archaeological methods and interpretations, both in and beyond the field. This book undertakes the first critical analysis of the photographic archive formed during the ten-year clearance of the tomb, and in doing so explores the interface between photography and archaeology at a pivotal time for both. Photographing Tutankhamun foregrounds photography as a material, technical, and social process in early 20th-century archaeology, in order to question how the photograph made and remade ‘ancient Egypt’ in the waning age of colonial order.
Excursions Along the Nile
Author | : Kathleen Stewart Howe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Glittering Images
Author | : Camille Paglia |
Publisher | : Pantheon Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0375424601 |
Presents a chronological tour of major themes in Western art as reflected by more than two dozen seminal images that use such mediums as paint, sculpture, architecture, performance art, and digital art.
Egypt Unexpected
Author | : Silvia Dogliani |
Publisher | : American Univ in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9789774162626 |
This is a photographic portrait of Egypt, that avoids the well-known history and popular views, and focuses instead on life as it is lived by its people. Three main oppositions are the focus of this book : noise and silence, spirit and movement, past and future. Also included are interviews with Egyptians and non-Egyptians, both the famous and the not so famous, giving a further feeling of the real Egypt, an insight beyond the pyramids, temples, and tombs.
Faces of Egypt
Author | : Deborah Shea Doyle |
Publisher | : Olive Branch Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781566569613 |
A lavish celebration of the lives of a wonderful people. For ten years, photographer Deborah Shea Doyle traveled throughout Egypt—from bustling Cairo to remote parts of the Sinai region—to explore the landscape and learn about the lives of ordinary Egyptians, especially the Bedouins. She visited large cities and small villages and traversed through the country's inaccessible areas, which presented her with a gold mine of opportunities to capture and record interesting faces of people she encountered along the way. Her splendid collection of photographs of ordinary Egyptian men, women, and children as they work and play in their everyday lives invites readers to discover Egypt and its people as they have not been seen before. The humanity captured through her expert lens is matched by an engaging text and observations that give readers insight into the local customs and habits.
A Face in Time
Author | : Sherif Boraie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789775864321 |
A stunning collection of vintage studio photographs from Egypt, including princes, pashas, and members of the now vanished ruling class, presented in a sumptuous edition From the invention of the camera, photographers, like painters, have sought to portray other people, and early studio photographs, with their highly stylized props, poses, and costumes, offer a beguiling window onto the prevailing fashions, tastes, and attitudes of their time. The portraits in this book, Egyptian studio photos from the mid-nineteenth century to the Second World War, tell such a story, their popularity and art then driven by the burgeoning presence of photo studios across the country. In their rich variety, they offer vivid evidence of the democratization of the image as access to the technology spread from members of Egypt's royalty to an ever-wider circle of subjects. But, more than that, they freeze time, by capturing human subjects that are no longer there. These portraits, and the studios that created them, evoke haunting fragments of a vanished past and invite us to endless speculation and contemplation. In the age of the selfie, their power to speak to us from the mists of time cannot be overstated. Includes over 200 stunning images, from the work of 81 photographic studios.