Photography and Egypt
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- Contents
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Introduction
Seeing Time
The Window of Appearance
Studio Venus
‘Kings Never Die’
The Show of Shows
Epilogue: ‘We are Old’
References
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
“An admirable and precise historical analysis and critique of the conditions under which photographs were produced in Egypt, as well as an assessment of their impact on the region.”
“Maria Golia’s relaxed prose belies her careful research on the subject of foreign and Egyptian enthusiasts of this most suspiciously regarded of visual arts . . . While Golia’s observations on the role of photography ‘as a midwife for the birth of mass tourism’ are acute, more striking is her exploration of how Egyptians embraced the ‘ficitionalization’ of their country . . . Golia ends with the hope that the book’s images will suggest the value of honoring a photographic legacy ‘integral to Egypt’s self-understanding.”
“Golia is a terrific writer, and she brings to Photography and Egypt the same easygoing prose that made her earlier book, Cairo: City of Sand, such a pleasure to read . . . Golia’s intense and unyielding affection for the place . . . is balanced by wry humor and an occasionally brutal critique of the censorious nature of the current regime, the paranoia of life under emergency law, and the lethargy perpetuated by a swollen and ineffectual state bureaucracy.”
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