The vehicle
Subtitle: picturing moments of transition in a modernizing society
By: edited by Akram Zaatari.
Contributors: Zaʻatarī, Akram.; Arab Image Foundation (Beirut, Lebanon)
Publisher: Arab Image Foundation; Mind the Gap
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Beirut
Language: ara
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Documentary photography -- Middle East -- Exhibitions.; Photography -- Middle East -- History -- Exhibitions.; Transportation -- Middle East -- History -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Picturing moments of transition in a modernizing society.
Description: "...exhibition that traces the infiltration of modernity into the Arab region [Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria] through the representation of the vehicle. Motorized means of transportation, whether cars, planes, ships or automobiles are often very present in family albums. They somehow reflected peoples desire to picture themselves during moments of transition. It is the moment that takes them from a place to another: travelling distances in a vehicle signified speed, technology, liberation and reflected the passengers personality."--http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/001103/2000110315.html.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition of photographs from the collection held by the Arab Image Foundation and held at: UNESCO Exhibition Hall, Beirut, 6-15 September 1999; Darat al Founoun, Amman, 5 October-5 November 1999; Town House Gallery, Cairo, January 2000; and French Cultural Center, Damascus, February 2000.

Text in Arabic and English. Title also in Arabic.
Table of contents: value: Looking at one's self; value: Mobility; value: Speed; value: Liberation; value: Collective imagination.