4to. 187 pp., profusely illustrated in sepia colour and b/w photos in & hors text including two folding panoramas, cloth in d/w, biblio, Arabic text, Folios Limited, London, 2001.

Synopsis

An academic study discussing early photography in Damascus carried out by Foreign and local photographers. The author gives new information about the activities of the photographers who visited or resided in Damascus, together with information about Syrian photographers. A critical analysis of the works carried out by Western photographers is given under the title “Colonial vision”.