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Title: Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine : A Victorian Photographer Abroad by Douglas R. Nickel ISBN: 0-691-11515-X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 22 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Dry text ..... Great Images
Comment: The text reads like a dry, doctoral dissertation that makes me thankful I didn't become a college professor. Passages like the following are prevalent throughout the book : "Moving from science to theology to philosophy and the intellectual history of the period, we can see how his photographic productions were explicitly motivated by the categorical imperative of religious faith." After translating this into "His images were based largely on his strong religious beliefs," you can, after some difficulty, get through the extremely burdensome text. The text also goes on multipe tangents trying to explain Victorian England, and the milieu that Frith lived in, but I found it overly burdensome and digressing.I found myself constantly trying to skip ahead of lengthy passages about Darwin's The Origin of Species and other digressing digressions.
The best aspect of the book is the images themselves. They are superbly produced with about as much detail from Frith's gigantic glass plates as I could expect a book to have. Frith was a rich man by the time he took his trips to the Middle East, and, whatever his motivations were, these images are historically important as well as having that Middle Eastern mystery I find fascinating. I wished that Nickel would have placed BOTH pairs of Frith's stereo slides into the book, rather than just one side and I also wish he had more images.
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Title: Aaron Siskind 100 by Aaron Siskind ISBN: 1576871940 Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian by Smithsonian Institution, Merry A. Foresta, Jeana Kae Foley ISBN: 1588341550 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Diane Arbus Revelations by DOON ARBUS ISBN: 0375506209 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: Edward Weston: A Legacy by Jonathan Spaulding, Jessica Todd Smith, Jennifer A. Watts ISBN: 1858942063 Publisher: Merrell Publishers Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Stems by Lee Friedlander ISBN: 1891024752 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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