Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the Near East: Francis Bedford’s Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, the Levant, and Constantinople CA Press Publishing Company den noch jungen Verlag seines

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Raf Simons

With large-scale illustrations of the different Motion Displays and an atmospheric photo essay featuring black-and-white details of the objects

Die Arbeiten von Frank Kunert sind so doppelbödig wie das Leben selbst

Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the Near East: Francis Bedford’s Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, the Levant, and Constantinople CA Press Publishing Company den noch jungen Verlag seinesIn 1862, the Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britains 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