Photographers:
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Israel and Palestine


 
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Contents

Improving content
1Improving content on contemporary photographers
Introduction
2Introduction to photography in Israel and Palestine
Daguerreotypes
3Daguerreotypes: The Holy Land
Early photographers
4Theodore de Leeuw: Israel and Palestine (1852)
5James Graham: The Holy Land (1855-1857)
6Mendel Diness: Jerusalem
7Louis de Clercq: Israel and Palestine
8George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859)
9Francis Frith: Books on Egypt, Sinai and Palestine
10Francis Frith: The Holy Land
11Francis Frith: The Holy Land. Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty-Eight Stereoscopic Views in The Holy Land, extending from Jerusalem to Damascus and Baalbec. (1858)
12Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem
13Gabriel de Rumine: Israel & Palestine (1858-1859)
14John Cramb: Palestine in 1860: A Series of Photographic Views (1860)
15Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - The Holy Land and Syria (1862)
16Francis Frith: The Holy Bible (1862-1863)
17Louis Vignes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain par M. Le Duc de Luynes (1868-74)
18H.H. Kitchener: Photographs of Biblical Sites (1875)
19Charles Bierstadt: Palestine
20Félix Bonfils: Jerusalem
21Félix Bonfils: Views of Palestine [Stereoviews]
22James Robertson: Jerusalem
23Tancrède Dumas: Jerusalem
24Strohmeyer & Wyman: Israel and Palestine
25F. & E. Thévoz: La Palestine Illustrée collection de vues recueillies en orient, photographs (1888-1891)
26Alfred. S. Campbell: Palestine (1896)
27Standard Scenic Co.: Palestine (1906)
28Benjamin West Kilburn: Palestine (ca 1898-1899)
29Realistic Travels: Palestine and vicinity (1918-1919)
Nineteenth century organizations
30Palestine Exploration Fund
31Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
32Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai
33American Palestine Exploration Society
34American Colony photographers of Jerusalem
Archaeological surveying with a balloon
35Palestine: Megiddo: Aerial archaeological surveying with a balloon (1930s)
Locations
36Jerusalem
37Israel and Palestine: Bethlehem
38Israel and Palestine: Nazareth
39Israel and Palestine: Hebron
40Israel and Palestine: Tiberias
41Israel and Palestine: Ramla
42Israel and Palestine: Jaffa
43Israel and Palestine: Bethany
44Israel and Palestine: River Jordan
45Israel and Palestine - Jordan: Dead Sea
Travel guides and photography
46Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - Jerusalem
47Keystone View Company: Maps and Plans Accompanying Palestine Through the Stereoscope (1900)
Pictorialism
48Yaakov Benor-Kalter: Photogravures of Israel and Palestine
Zionism
49Zionism in Palestine
50Robert Capa: Israel and Palestine
51Chim: Israel and Palestine
Post-1948 wars and social upheaval
52Middle East - a cycle of wars and uprisings (1948-): Introduction
53Lebanon 1982-2000
54George Azar: War photography in Lebanon (1982-200)
55The Intifadas
56Photographic studies on Israel, Palestine and the Intifadas
57Thoughts on the cycle of wars and uprisings in the Middle East
58Yuval Tebol: Land Research Project (2017 or earlier)
Conclusions
59Conclusion to photography in Israel and Palestine

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