Description
| Product ID: | 9780415593427 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Ethiopia Photographed |
| Subtitle: | Historic Photographs of the Country and its People Taken Between 1867 and 1935 |
| Authors: | Author: Denis Gerard, Richard Pankhurst |
| Page Count: | 168 |
| Subjects: | Photographs: collections, Photographs: collections, African history, History, History, Social and cultural history, African history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Ethiopia, c 1800 to c 1900, c 1900 - c 1914, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) , c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
| Description: | Following the very successful Ethiopia Engraved, an illustrated book of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900, Ethiopia Photographed covers the period from the inception of photography in the country up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings and rulers of Ethiopia - such as Emperor Melenik, Lej Iyasu and Emperor Haile Selassie - make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals. Following the very successful Ethiopia Engraved, an illustrated book of engravings by foreign travellers from 1681 to 1900, Ethiopia Photographed covers the period from the inception of photography in the country up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings and rulers of Ethiopia - such as Emperor Melenik, Lej Iyasu and Emperor Haile Selassie - make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals. Situated in lofty, often inaccessible mountains between the Red Sea and the Blue Nile, and extending far into the Horn of Africa, it is a complex and mysterious country which as always exercised an extraordinary fascination for the outside world. The book begins with an introduction which gives a brief history of Ethiopia in this period, and describes the role of photography at this time. The richly captured images of Ethiopia Photographed bear witness to many personalities and places not previously seen and, in many cases, now lost for all time but for the photogenic memories recorded here. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-02-14 |
