Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the Near East: Francis Bedfordas Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, the Levant, and Constantinople

Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the Near East: Francis Bedfordas Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, the Levant, and Constantinople

Gordon, Sophie

Paperback

EgyptPhotography History & CriticismPhotographers

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 9774166701
ISBN13: 9789774166709
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Oct 1 2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 9.80 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
In 1862, the Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain's Queen Victoria, embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East, for his education and enlightenment. Accompanying the royal party was Francis Bedford, an accomplished practitioner of the still young art of photography, charged with taking views of the cities and historic places visited on the tour for the royal album. The result is an extraordinary collection of some of the best early photographs of Cairo and the temples of Upper Egypt, Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Lebanon and Damascus, Izmir and Constantinople. From timeless views of the Pyramids, the Dome of the Rock, Baalbek, and Hagia Sophia to scenes from another age of the streets of Cairo or tall ships on the Bosphorus, 120 of Bedford's most outstanding photographs are showcased here in this fascinating visual tour of ancient lands in royal company.

Also in

Egypt

View All