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Excursions Along the Nile: The Photographic Discovery of Ancient Egypt

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Kathleen Stewart Howe

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1994

The discovery of Egypt by 19th century Europe
This book is an incredible collection of 19th century photographs of Egypt. It lets you see that land through the eyes of the European and American photographers of that era. Anyone interested in photography or the history of the Middle East will treasure this book.

First Seen: Portraits of the World's Peoples

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Kathleen Stewart Howe

Third Millennium Pub Ltd, 2006

The Beginnings of Photography and the Paramount Importance of Subject
FIRST SEEN is a brilliant traveling museum exhibition currently ensconced at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, an important collection of 250 photographs from the Wilson Centre for Photography in London accompanied by this magnificent catalogue by Kathleen Stewart Howe. This is a museum catalogue that is the equal to any book on photography on the market, not only because of the importance of the ...

De Havilland Mosquito
Stewart Howe

Crecy Publishing Ltd, 2004

The first volume in the two volume set traces the history of the Mosquito from its first flight in November 1940 through to its production and many variants. The aircraft's varied post-war uses are outlined in roles ranging from oil prospecting and air racing to aerial survey. Told in pictures with extended captions and two colour sections, this reprinted volume 1 combines with the new volume 2 to present over 1,000 photographs, making them ...

Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine

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Kathleen Stewart Howe

California Academy of Sciences, 1997

Beautiful reproduction
This catalog of a traveling exhibition beautifully reproduces nearly 100 early photographs, most of Jerusalem and its environs, others of the Sinai Peninsula. The accompanying text puts the photographs in historical context, and discusses the ways in which the choices and treatments of subject reflect both the technological and ideological choices of the photographers. --Aramco World

The New World's Old World: Photographic Views of Ancient America

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Georgia de Havenon, Kathleen Stewart Howe, ...

University of New Mexico Press, 2003

A fine visionary approach to archaeology
May Castleberry's informed and informative text comprising New World's Old World is wonderfully enhanced for readers with exceptional black and white photos of ancient American cultures before the Spanish conquest. These archaeological sites have survived to be photographed in the 19th century and beyond: individual photos capture the pre-Columbian Native American monuments, their landscapes, and ...

Felix Teynard: Calotypes of Egypt : A Catalogue Raisonne

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Kathleen Stewart Howe

H P Kraus, 1992

The beautifully buried Abu Simbel - Ramese of Egypt
It is an image collection of Egypt, taken by the French master Felix Teynard during 1851-52. The magnificent views of ancient monuments, architecture and landscape further reveals the unconsicous passage of time. These images were first published in Paris in 1958. One remarkable image is the Abu Simbel, which clearly showed the rightmost statue of Ramese still paritally buried under sand. ...