Title: Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine : a Victorian photographer abroad /
Authors: Nickel, Douglas R. 1961-; Frith, Francis.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Frith, Francis.; Travel photography Egypt.; Travel photography Palestine.; Egypt History Pictorial works.; Palestine History Pictorial works.
Abstract: "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."
Contents: A Victorian photographer abroad -- The automatic machinery of circumstance -- Spirit facts: biography as history -- Egypt, the greatest sensation -- Photographed and described -- A fulcrum for my lever -- Religion as science, science as philosophy -- A Christian positivist -- The view from above -- Self-portrait in Eastern costume -- A sermon in stones.