Gardens of Sand: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, Arabia, Turkey, and the Levant

by Issam Nassar

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 Gardens of Sand unites 90 original photographs, mostly hitherto unpublished, by photographers such as James Robertson, Wilhelm Hammerschmidt, G. Lekegian, Antoine Beato, Felix Bonfils, Otto Shoefft, Emile Béchard and Sulayman Al-Hakim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.

Hardcover

First published October 31, 2010

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[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

How can you not be fascinated by these photos?! This collection is necessarily awesome.