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THESIGER, W. , A Vanished World, New York 2001. Hard cover 28,5 x 22,5 cm. 192 pages. Pages 23 to 192 photographs. "Wilfred Thesiger's photography career started during a hunting expedition to Ethiopia at age twenty. Three years later he returned to explore the Awash River and photograph the ferocious Danakil, who were reputed to mutilate any traveler they encountered. In the Sudan he photographed the Muslim tribes in Northern Darfur, pagan Nuer in the Western Nile swamps, and magnificent Nuba wrestlers. The visual drama of Arabia's deserts was the backdrop to Thesiger's emergence as a master of the portrait. In that harsh environment he captures the striking faces of Bedu companions posing unselfconsciously for his camera. In contrast, tranquil images of reeds, lagoons, and waterways characterize his matchless portraits of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, whose way of life has now completely disappeared. Subsequent journeys took him to remote areas of Kurdistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and finally to northern Kenya, where he lived for many years. This book is the summation of a unique and magnificent career."
€ 19.50
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MONTI, N.(ed.), Africa then: photographs 1840-1918, 1987. Hard cover 25,5 x 24,5 cm. 174 pag. with ca. 87 photo's. Of which around 35 depict Egypt, Northern Africa. Some slight wear.
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BALDWIN, G & PARE, R. & GREENOUGH, S., All the mighty World - The photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852- 1860, New Haven 2006. (Yale university Press / ISBN 9780300104905). Exhibition catalogue. Hard cover(oblong) 25,5 x 30 cm. 290 pages with 89 photographs. "Roger Fenton (1819–1869) was the most celebrated and influential photographer in England during the golden age of the medium in the 1850s. This major loan exhibition unites ninety of Fenton's finest works from American and European collections, representing his achievement in every genre: Romantic landscapes, intimate portraits of the royal family, stunning architectural views of England's ruined abbeys and castles, moving reportage of the Crimean War, enchanting Orientalist tableaux, and lush still lifes. Before taking up the camera, Roger Fenton studied law in London and painting in Paris. He traveled to Russia in 1852 and photographed the landmarks of Kiev and Moscow; founded the Photographic Society (later designated the Royal Photographic Society) in 1853; and was appointed the first official photographer of the British Museum in 1854. Fenton achieved widespread recognition for his photographs of the Crimean War in 1855, including portraits of confident commanders and shell-shocked soldiers, scenes of Balaklava Harbor and of the allied camps, and views of the terrain of battle. Among the most understated but moving of these is Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), a barren landscape littered with cannonballs. Perhaps inspired by the experience of traveling through Constantinople en route to Balaklava, or perhaps simply sharing the mid-nineteenth-century vogue for all things exotic, Fenton produced a theatrical suite of Orientalist compositions during the summer of 1858—costume pieces such as Pasha and Bayadere (J. Paul Getty Museum) and Nubian Water Carrier (National Museum of Photography, Film & Television) that strove for high art rather than documentation and that were, in a sense, an antidote to the harsh realities that Fenton had recorded in the Crimea."
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FABER,P. & GROENEVELD, A., Beelden van de Oriënt Fotografie en Tourisme 1860-1900/Images of the orient Photography and Tourism 1860-1900, Amsterdam 1986. Soft cover 19 x 25,5 cm. 96 pag. met 96 foto's. Text in Dutch and English.
€ 22.50
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GROS & DELETTREZ, Bibliothèque d'Art Islamique de M.D. Zargar / Photographies orientalistes, Parijs 2009. Catalogue de vente 10 décembre 2009, soft cover 21 x 26,5 cm. 61 pag. with 187 lots. CONTENT: Catalogue de vente 10 décembre 2009.With 187 lots. Lots 1 to 134 books; lots 135 to 187 photo's[ all depicted] from the Orient.
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GORDON, S., Cairo to Constantinople Francis Bedford's Photographs of the Middle East, London 2014. Hard cover 27 x 28,5 cm. 255 pages with around 200 photographs; on pages 224 to 240 the photographs again but "In 1862 the leading British photographer Francis Bedford was commissioned by Queen Victoria to accompany her son and heir, the future King Edward VII, on an ambitious journey around the Middle East. In often stifling heat, Bedford produced over 200 negatives, capturing images of the striking architecture and stunning landscapes he encountered as he travelled through Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Greece."
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BARTHE, C., Camera Obscura Portraits au Daguerrétype 1841-1851, Paris 2007. Soft cover 34 x 24 cm. 63 pages with 30 daguerrétypes on real size and 53 on smaller size. Daguerrétypes from the French colonies.
€ 27.50
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Özendes,E., Exposures of an Empire. Photography in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1919) Egy birodalon képei Fotográfia az Oszman Birodalomban (1839-1919), Budapest 2001. Softcover 20 x 24 cm. 48 pag. met 21 zwart-wit afb. Tekst in het Hongaars. Text only in Hungarian PHOTOGRAPHERS:
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PEREZ, N.E., Focus East Early Photography in the Near East 1839-1885, Milaan 1988. Hard cover 24 x 31 cm. 256 pag. met 268 foto's. CONTENT:
The history, focus and attraction of photography in that area.
Extensive list of biographies with examples of their photographs. Bibliography
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Ruthven,M., Freya Stark in the Levant, Reading1994. Hardcover 21 x 27 cm. 118pag. met ca. 100 zwart-wit foto's. "Stark was one of the lively travellers, particularly in the Arabian and Persian regions, before WWII. An engaging writer, she was also an avid photographer, leaving 50,000 in her archive." For her biography see[under "Orient": Freya Stark
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NASSAR,I & ALMÁrCEGUI, P. & WORSWICK,C., Gardens of Sand Commercial Photography in the Middle East 1859-1905, NewYork 2010. Hard cover 28,5 x 24 cm. 140 pag. with 88 photo's fullpage and some double page. "Between 1859 and 1905, a number of photographers working in Damascus, Mecca, Cairo, Istanbul, and northern Africa captured their landscapes, towns, and monuments, bequeathing an unprecedented visual documentation of the Middle East. Gardens of Sand brings together original photographs, masterpieces mostly hitherto unpublished, taken between 1859 and 1905. The archive illustrates the themes of the expatriate photographers of the second half of the nineteenth centurystudy portraits, royal commissions, landscapes, inventories of significant monuments and buildings, orientalist scenes, steeped in classical European imaginationbut also explores the confrontation between western imagination and the visual reality of the Middle East, a meeting that gave rise to a local photography, gradually moving further away from western stereotypes, and includes a critical analysis of orientalism and of photography as a means of conveying a reality of prejudices."
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BONHAM’S, India and Beyond, Antiquities, Greece and the Near East, Londen 2009. Sales catalogue 31 March, 2009. Soft cover 21 x 27 cm. 114 pag. with 264 lots. CONTENT:
- Lots 1-8 Books - Lots 9-113 Albums and Photographs - Lots 114-121 - Lots Sri Lanka
- Lots 122-128 Books - Lots 129-156 Albums and Photographs
- Lots 157-166 Albums and Photographs - Lot 167 Papers of Rex engelbach - Lots168-187 Albums and Books with Photography - Lots 188-198 Modern Greec and the Near East - Lots 199-264 Antiquities
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AZOULAY, P., La Nostalgérie française, France 1980. Hard cover 22 x 30 cm.[oblong] 167 pages, richly illustrated.
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FABER,R., Louis Heldring: Amateur photographer in the Middle East 1898, Amsterdam2008. Volume 3 Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography. Hard cover 21 x 26, 5 cm. 55 pag. met 40 photo's. "On December 5th 1901, Louis Heldring presented each of his three children with a special edition of his recently published book "Travel impressions of the East". These books had blank pages where he had pasted the photographs that he took on his travels in the Middle East in 1898, with handwritten captions. Originally a modest travel memoir, the three special gift editions grew into splendid two volume jewels of early amateur photography. The combination of text and photographs enables Rakia Faber to reconstruct the way in which an amateur photographer experienced and expressed his trip."
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FABIAN, R. & ADAM, H-C, Masters of Early Travel Photography, Londen 1983(Thames and Hudson Ltd / ISBN 9780500540985). Hard cover 31,5 x 23,5 352 pages with 250 photographsof which 177 in colour. " First published in Germany under the title "Fruhe Reisen mit der Kamera" in 1981. Chapters: "The Birth of Photography, Niepce, Daguerre, and Tallbot," "Egypt: Lion-hearted Journeys to the Temples of the Nile, Francis Frith and Maxime Du Camp," "Greenland: A Cheerful Outing Among the Icebergs, Dunmore and Critcherson," "Japan: Photographing the 'Gate to the Sun', Kusakabe Kimbei, Felice Beato, and Baron Stillfried," "Brazil: Imperial Photographer of the Amazon, Dom Pedro II and Marc Ferrez," "India: The 'Brave Photographic Warriors' of the British Empire, Samuel Bourne and Deen Dayal," "China: An Ancient Culture Caught Forever, John Thomson," "The American West: Pioneering with Colt and Camera, William H. Jackson, Carleton Watkins, and Eadweard Muybridge," and "The World in Color: Record It While It Lasts, Albert Kahn and Burton Holmes. With biographies, bibliography. Reproductions true to the original prints, with sepia, black-and-white, hand-colored, early color processes."
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EPSTEIN,A, e.a., Mit Kamel und Kamera Historische Orient-Fotografie 1864-1970, Hamburg 2007. Softcover 15 x 21 cm. 736 pag. met ruim 200 zwart-wit foto's. CONTENT: Mit europäischem Blick auf das Fremde: Die Ausstellung “Mit Kamel und Kamera” zeigt eine Auswahl aus der Museumssammlung von 18 000 zwischen 1864 und 1970 entstandenen Fotografien aus dem Vorderen und Mittleren Orient sowie Nordafrika. Die ausgestellten Fotografien zeigen Motive mit hohem ästhetischem Anspruch professioneller Studios aus Nordafrika, Ägypten und dem “Heiligen Land” aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, in denen sich auch gängige Orientstereotype widerspiegeln. Von besonderer Bedeutung sind die Fotografien wissenschaftlicher Expeditionen, die zum Teil in für Europäer bis dahin kaum oder gar nicht erschlossene Gebiete führten
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MILET, E., Orientalist Photographs 1870-1950, Paris 2008. Hard cover 31,5 x 25 cm. 205 pag. with 105 photographs.
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BOISJOLY, F. & BADOT, J-C, Répertoire des photographes français d'Outre mer du XIXe siècle , Paris 2013. Soft cover 312 pages 760 illustrations 1087 biographical notes. "La fin du XIXème siècle et les deux premières décennies du XXe siècle ont été l’âge d'or de la carte postale dans de nombreux pays d'outre-mer. Si la carte postale constitue une mine de renseignements, il ne faut pas omettre les photos cartes de visite qui les ont devancées — tous les photographes, des plus humbles aux plus célèbres de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, utilisaient ce support. Le Répertoire des photographes français d’Outre-Mer recense les photographes professionnels français et étrangers travaillant sur les territoires français du XIXe siècle ainsi que les photographes professionnels français ayant travaillé sur les territoires d’outre-mer autres que la France et l’Europe, photographes pour la plupart actifs entre 1839 et 1920. La grande masse des principaux documents utilisés pour réaliser ce recensement sont les photos cartes de visite, un nombre non négligeable d’ouvrages photographiques et de journaux d’époque. Professionnels et amateurs nous offrent ainsi une véritable mémoire de ces pays — Bassin méditerranéen, Afrique noire, Asie, Océanie et Amérique — par leur production personnelle ou par les réalisations d'éditeurs. Fruit de 35 années de travail, cet annuaire recense plus de 1000 photographes et réunit des documents émanant principalement des collections des deux auteurs et d’un collectionneur privé. Par son intérêt à la fois historique, artistique et sociologique, il contribue notamment à ressusciter un monde sans doute à jamais disparu."
€ 90.00
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BALDWIN, R. Roger Fenton Pasha and Bayadere, Los Angeles 1996. Softcover 19 x 24 cm. 112 pg. met 58 afb. waarvan 20 in kleur. "Roger Fenton"s photograph Pasha and Bayadere is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In his rich and detailed study, Baldwin explains how this image of a seated man and a dancing woman embodies themes and motifs that can be found in the work of nineteenth-century artists from Eugene Delacroix to John Frederick Lewis to Alfred Lord Tennyson. He has also brought to light significant new information about the life and career of Fenton, the important Victorian photographer best known for his photographs of the Crimean War."
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SOTHEBY'S, The Travel Sale: Mediterranean and the Middle East, London 2000. Auction Catalogue 12/13 October 2000[sale: L00719]. Soft cover 27 x 21 cm. 172 pages 579 lots. Photography:
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