Gardens of Sand: Commercial Photography in the Middle East 1859-1905
Turner, 2010. Hardcover. Item #435793
ISBN: 8475068987
144 pages. 9-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Binding is tight, boards show very minor shelfwear. Jacket has multiple bumps, chips, and scuffs as well as some loss to the front cover photo from the removal of a sticker.
Between 1859 and 1905, a number of photographers, working from the Maghreb to Turkey, collectively amassed a vast documentation of the region's landscape, towns and monuments. Gardens of Sand unites 90 original photographs, mostly hitherto unpublished, by photographers such as James Robertson, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, G. Lekegian, Antoine Beato, Felix Bonfils, Otto Shoefft, Emile Béchard and Sulayman Al-Hakim of Damascus.
Price: $25.00