Stacey International, Date: 1998-10-30. Hardcover. Used: Good. 1998. Stacey International ISBN 0905743741 9780905743745 [US]

ISBN10: 0905743741, ISBN13: 9780905743745, [publisher: Stacey International, London] Hardcover First Edition Book condition is fine. Hard cover. 1st edition. Dust jacket near fine, no tears. Book block clean. Book boards clean. Text body clean. Spine intact. Overall a great and neat copy. Saudi Arabia by the First Photographer covers the period between the 1860s and 1950s. It is an extraordinary visual record of a crucial time before the old way of life wad swept away. Remote and unfamiliar locations features strongly, with the collection concentrating on the people and places if the Hijaz, Najd, al-Hasa, Hamilton and the north, Asia, Narrandera and the Tihamah, to illustrate the immemorial way of life, now all but entirely vanished. It draws on all the known photographic collections from the time of the first traveller photographers : Muhammad Sadiq, Miriam and Sons and Snouck Hurgronje (Abe al-Ghaffar) in the last decade if the 1800s; Ibrahim Rifaat, Clemow and Hallajian at the turn if the century; Gertrude Bell, Shakespeare, T.E Lawrence and Philby in the first quarter; and so to de Gaury, Rendelsham and Thesiger in the 1939's and 1949s, with Battigellu, Steiner's and other Aramco Photographers. These remarkable pictures are accompanied by Text setting them in their historical context,vby William Facey, one of today's outstanding historians of the Arabian Peninsula. His commentary is accompanied by detailed coverage of the aims, Styles and ...