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Nickel, Douglas R : Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine - a Victorian Photographer Abroad

Princeton University Press, 2004

First edition, first printing, 2004, hardback, 12" x 10", new condition, in a an unclipped dust jacket, publisher's original illustrated boards with gilt blocking to brown cloth spine, 290 pages including index, patterned endpapersinternally clean tight and bright, sepia and b/w photo illustrations and b/w line drawings. Contents include: Maps of Frith's Travels; Introduction; 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; chronology; Appendix - negative numbers and plate titles; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photography credits....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. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming something of a celebrity in photographic circles. This book, the first to place Frith s Egyptian and Levantine images in cultural context, reveals the distinct meanings these ostensibly topographic pictures held for the photographer and his Victorian audience.

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