In this book, John Hannavy re-creates the epic journeys first traveled by nineteenth-century photographers: Fox Talbot in Scotland (1844), Charles Kinnear and Melville Raven in France (1857), Francis Frith in Egypt (18561859), Roger Fenton in Russia and the Ukraine (18521855), Samuel Bourne in India (1863), and John Thomson in China and Cyprus (18631878).
Contrasting the Victorian world with our own, Hannavy looks at how our view of the world has changed in the intervening years and chronicles developments in travel, architecture, culture, and photography itself.
Professor John Hannavy is...
In this book, John Hannavy re-creates the epic journeys first traveled by nineteenth-century photographers: Fox Talbot in Scotland (1844), Charles Kin...
This encyclopedia covers the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings that helped photography develop into the essential communication tool, creative medium and recorder of everyday life that it had become by the dawn of the 20th century.
This encyclopedia covers the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings that helped photography develop into the essen...
A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. Take a step back between 1840 and 1910 and explore the pastimes, hobbies, sports and other entertainments enjoyed by the Victorians and Edwardians through the rich variety of photographs and vintage postcards in this beautiful album. A world we usually see in monochrome or sepia is presented here in vivid color, bringing the Victorian and Edwardian people a little closer to us. 128 pages are packed with images...
A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the l...
The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, isolation, entertainment, and the venue for most people's holidays. But it was also a thriving center of industry - shipbuilding and fishing, plus the numerous trades associated with dockyards, coastal transport and the leisure industry.
This book travels around Britain's coast - clockwise from London - looking at the industries that could be found at many of the cities and towns en route. Illustrated with an amazing collection of colored postcards and other early photographs, the working coast of Britain is brought to...
The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, isolation, entertainment, and the venue for most people's holidays. But it was al...
