Frith's Egypt and The Holy Land
Between 1857 and 1860 – ten years before the famous meeting between Livingstone and Stanley – Francis Frith made three pioneering expeditions to the Middle East with his camera. Here are his remarkable photographs, some of the earliest images ever taken of the Bible lands and the Nile regions of Egypt. Read Francis Frith’s own fascinating account of his adventures, including hair-raising encounters with bandits and exotic Bedouin chiefs, and the dangers he faced daily processing his photographs in the searing desert heat.
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Included are a number of Frith’s own poetically written descriptive notes to his images – they offer a unique insight into the extraordinary character of the man, and into the prevailing attitudes of his era towards foreign lands and cultures.
See Frith’s stunning photographic record of Egypt and the Pyramids, Luxor and Thebes, the HolyLand and Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ethiopia (the modern-day Sudan). Many of the monuments and antiquities are depicted before they were plundered and removed tomuseums throughout the world. Exquisite, finely detailed and atmospheric, Francis Frith’s pioneering images reflect the essential mystery of the remote and evocative lands bordering the Nile and the Holy Land, revealing them as they were before 20th-century tourism altered them for ever.
Egyptologist Richard Lunn has added an informative introduction, as well as fascinating notes about the monuments and sites depicted, and modern colour photographs for comparison.
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