Main entry:

Nassar, Issam.

Title & Author:

Photographing Jerusalem : the image of the city in nineteenth century photography / by Issam Nassar.

Publication:

Boulder : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1997.

Description:

vi, 61 pages, 112 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

East European monographs ; no. 482

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Jerusalem of the Heavens -- Jerusalem in nineteenth century photography -- Photographs: Jerusalem and its surroundingd photographs #41-88. Other locations in Palestine photographs #89-112 -- Appendix 1. Nineteenth-Century chronology of events -- Appendix 2. Invention and development of photography in the nineteenth-Century -- Appendix 3. Chronology of main events in the development of the photography and its use in nineteenth-century Palestine.

Summary:

"It illustrates the way in which the city looked through the lens of a camera in the 1800s and investigates the uses of photographic representation while taking a tour of 19th-century Jerusalem sites in more than 100 photographs." https://www.amazon.com/Photographing-Jerusalem-Nineteenth-Century-Photography-Monographs/dp/0880333790

ISBN:

0880333790
9780880333795

Subject:

Photography Jerusalem History 19th century.
Photographie Jérusalem Histoire 19e siècle.
Photography
Jerusalem Pictorial works.
Middle East Jerusalem
Jerusalem (Israel) History 19th century.
Jerusalem (Israel) Pictorial works.
Art and Museum

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works

Added entries:

East European monographs ; no. 482.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 175877
Call No.: ID DS109.25.N3; ID:98-B2087
Status: Available