A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East

'Nancy Micklewright's first book brings together a body of rich and varied source material to produce a nuanced view of the production, consumption, and uses of photography in the nineteenth century... As the first book that brings together Lady Brassey's photographs and travel writings, it also intoduces the figure of a victorian woman who had been overlooked.' Visual Resources

Auteur
Nancy Micklewright is a Program Officer at the Getty Grant Program in Los Angeles, California. Trained as an Islamicist, she taught in the History in Art Department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, before joining the Grant Program.

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The extraordinary accomplishments in the travel writing and photography of Lady Brassey are the subject of Nancy Micklewright's study. It has to be understood that Lady Brassey never thought of herself as anything other than a normal woman of her period and class.

Contenu
Contents: Foreword; Preface; Annie Brassey and mid-19th century photography; Annie Lady Brassey; The Brassey albums and the history of photography in the Middle East; Photograph albums as constructions of realities; The Middle East and the photographic record; Afterword; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.