Photography, Travel, Middle East

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Bruce Feiler
Walking the Bible: A Photographic Journey
by William Morrow (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-10-25)

Bruce Feiler recently reprised the journey through the Holy Land that led to his breakthrough bestseller Walking the Bible––this time he took along a documentary film crew. The result will be a heavily marketed PBS series in January 2006 and a lush illustrated book, WALKING THE BIBLE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY. One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, WALKING THE BIBLE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY is a fascinating, unprecedented journey––by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel––through the most famous stories ever told. The combination of beautiful photography and Feiler's evocative prose will irresistibly draw readers into the Holy Land. In these pages the biblical landscape comes alive as Feiler treks though Turkey, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Sinai, and Jordan visiting the actual places where some of history's most famous events took place, from the mountain where Noah's ark ...

Israel Through My Lens: Sixty Years As a Photojournalist
by Abbeville Press (Hardcover)

The compelling autobiography of Israel's preeminent photojournalist, illustrated with his most memorable images.

Sabrina Michaud, Roland Michaud
The Orient in a Mirror
by Harry N. Abrams (Hardcover)

Inspired by a series of journeys to the Middle East and Asia, photographers Roland and Sabrina Michaud offer striking testimony to the endurance of Islamic cultures with The Orient in a Mirror. Using the mirror as their motif, the Michauds pair traditional Islamic art miniatures, some of which date back eight centuries, with their own photographs of the Middle East taken over a period of nearly 50 years, beautifully evoking a lasting civilization rooted in faith and tradition. People and landscapes, souks and bazaars, beggars and children: one is struck by the unchanged character of the faces, the lives, and the land, hundreds of years apart. A photograph of a barber performing a "bleeding" in Morocco in 1958, for example, faces a painted miniature of virtually the same scene, created in Iraq in 1240. Through their pairings, the photographers provoke a fascinating interplay between past and present, art and reality. Furthering the timeless feel of the photographs and the ...

Editors of Life Magazine
Life: Places of the Bible: A Photographic Pilgrimage
by Life (Hardcover)

Seamus Murphy
Afghanistan: A Darkness Visible
by Saqi Books (Hardcover)

Afghanistan is a collection of stunning, lyrical photographs from an acclaimed, prize-winning photojournalist. From 1994 to 2006, Seamus Murphy photographed the effects of the Taliban regime, the tumultuous years of civil war, and the historical elections following the fall of the Taliban. Alongside scenes of war and politics, his magnificent photographs capture intimate images of domesticity, work, and leisure. Seamus Murphy has won six World Press Photo awards and has received widespread acclaim for his work in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Leora Kahn
Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan
by powerHouse Books (Paperback)

Winner of the 2007 Lucie Award: powerHouse Books for Photography Book Publisher of the Year In June 2007, powerHouse Books released Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan, a collaboration with three humanitarian organizations and five of the world's top photo agencies. The book, filled with haunting images and testimonials that displayed the desperate and severe reality of the Sudan crisis, sold out its initial run in just a few months, helping to raise much-needed money for this desperate cause. Now, Darfur arrives in paperback. Even by conservative estimates, the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan is grave. There are 3.5 million people who are hungry, 2.5 million who have been displaced by violence, and 400,000 individuals who have died since the crisis began in 2003. The international community has failed to take steps to protect civilians, or to influence the Sudanese government to intervene. Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan is the ...

Alan Keohane
Bedouin: Nomads of the Desert
by Kyle Cathie (Hardcover)

For centuries, the Bedu have herded their livestock across the inhospitable deserts of the Middle East, their scattered goat-hair tents the only signs of habitation in an otherwise barren landscape. In this stunning photographic essay, Alan Keohane sharply observes the details of nomadic life, from the everyday chores of cooking and collecting water to the more exotic tasks of weaving, moving camps, and celebrating feasts. The life of the Bedouin is rich in color and culture, but this book also shows a people struggling to maintain their age-old bonds with the desert and tradition in the face of the encroaching demands of the modern world. Alan Keohane's previous book was The Berbers of Morocco.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Mecca, The Blessed, Medina, The Radiant: The Holiest Cities of Islam
by Aperture (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-06-15)

Jerusalem in Original Photographs, 1850-1920
by Stacey International Publishers (Hardcover)

In a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan
by Abbeville Press (Hardcover)

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