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The Bible and the Image
The History of Photography in The Holy Land, 1839-1899
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Year
2017Print ISBN
9780812279818, 9780812279818Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Main Events in Holy Land Photography, 1839-1899
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: The Land, Holy and Profane
- 1. Art, Propaganda, and "Remarkable Views": Daguerreotypes, 1839-1844
- 2. Jerusalem in Beautiful Prints: Calotypes, 1849-1864
- 3. Early Traveling Landscape Photographers: Wet-Plate Photography, 1857-1862
- 4. Exploratory Reports and Travelers' Pictures, 1864-1878: Protestant and Catholic Nuances in Holy Land Photography
- Part Two: Photography and Local Society
- 5. Early Local Photographers and the Second Commandment, 1859-1876
- 6. Early Portrayal of Local Inhabitants: The View from Outside, 1867-
- 7. Native Attitudes
- Part Three: Photography in Print
- 8. Travel and Pilgrimage Albums and Books, 1886-1899
- 9. Missionary Photography and Photojournalism, 1885-1899
- 10. Arab, Jewish, and “American Colony” Photography, 1890-1899
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Addendum
- Index