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Indlæser... Great Photographic Journeys (Dewi Lewis Publishing) (udgave 2007)af John Hannavy
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150 years ago travelling with a camera was both a novelty and an enormous challenge. The intrepid photographers who took their cameras to remote parts of the world brought back images which amazed their peers. Photographer and historian John Hannavy has recreated some of their epic journeys: exploring the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel along the route Francis Frith followed between 1856 and 1859; exploring China and Cyprus as John Thomson did between 1863 and 1878. No library descriptions found. |
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In view of that, it's surprising how many photographs we have from the period 1830-60 taken out of doors. More remarkable still are the numbers of photographs taken as part of photographic expeditions to far-flung corners of the globe (although it has to be said that any photographic trip of more than a day was a major undertaking under those circumstances). Victorian photographers toured Egypt, India and China (amongst other places). John Hannavy hit on the idea of retracing some of those expeditions with modern cameras, trying to recreate some of the scenes from those early pictures and reflecting on the changes in both the photographer's craft and the life of the subjects that were captured.
The result is an interesting essay in comparisons. Hannavy's writing style is easy and journalistic, without being trite or facile. The contemporary photographs are all of a high standard; interestingly, most of them were taken on transparency stock, with only a few of the last trip being sourced on a top-end digital camera. No noticeable difference can be discerned, showing that the book is also a top-end production. ( )