Description
Photography and Travel provides a lively account of the 170-year partnership between photography and travel. Graham Smith reviews the nineteenth century, from France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Japan to North America. He then moves to the twentieth century, ranging from seaside excursions to transcontinental travel by rail, road and air. As it has become more democratized, the methods and experiences of travel have developed in many unexpected directions, all of which have created their own new photographic narratives. Photography and Travel shows that photographers have often gone to great lengths - at considerable personal danger - to record exotic destinations, from the ice caves and crevasses of the Mer de Glace to the maw of Vesuvius, and from the summit of Mount Everest to the pock-marked surface of the moon.
About the Author
Graham Smith is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews and Editor of the international quarterly History of Photography.
Reviews
its nice to have all the pictures and Smiths book tells the extraordinary tale of the relationship between travel and the photographic arts from 1830s to the present day. He covers an impressive amount of ground: photographs stealing the show at the great exhibitions of the 19th century, the rise of the picture postcard, the emergence of image-packed magazines, and how photos did as many favours for the Venetian economy as the famous glassware. Theres also a detailed account of how the technology evolved. Fittingly, the book contains many well-chosen illustrations a reminder that putting camera in the hands of travellers was a good idea. * Geographical Magazine *
Graham Smiths Photography and Travel is an erudite and informed examination of the influence of photography on the concept oftravel, and reversely, of the wider world on photography as a means to record and introduce locations previously inaccessible to the majority. * State Magazine *
[Smiths] longstanding interests richly inform the early chapters of Photography and Travel, which also deals with the relations between photography and cultures of travel from the announcement of photography in 1839 to the present day . . . Smith offers a richly informed descriptive account of the leading photographers in a chronological series of chapters . . . Within each of these chapters, the broadly chronological account is elaborated by subheadings that relate variously to the leading photographers and their studios, the countries in which they worked (including France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, China and Japan), and the changing genres and formats of travel photography, from the prints, albums and lantern slides of the nineteenth century, to the twentieth centurys Kodak snaps, postcards, and illustrated books and magazines. History of Photography * State Magazine *
This book covers the visualised world of travel and tourism, and of all the subjects in this eminently pleasing series, Exposures, is unquestionably the largest in its scope. Graham Smith copes with this in his characteristically skilful, erudite and intelligible manner . . . The pictures are numerous and are well printed, which properly allows us to spend time with them, and to think directly about them . . . an excellent book * Studies in Photography *
Book Information
ISBN 9781861899125
Author Graham Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 188
Imprint Reaktion Books
Publisher Reaktion Books
About the Author
Graham Smith is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews and Editor of the international quarterly History of Photography.
Reviews
its nice to have all the pictures and Smiths book tells the extraordinary tale of the relationship between travel and the photographic arts from 1830s to the present day. He covers an impressive amount of ground: photographs stealing the show at the great exhibitions of the 19th century, the rise of the picture postcard, the emergence of image-packed magazines, and how photos did as many favours for the Venetian economy as the famous glassware. Theres also a detailed account of how the technology evolved. Fittingly, the book contains many well-chosen illustrations a reminder that putting camera in the hands of travellers was a good idea. * Geographical Magazine *
Graham Smiths Photography and Travel is an erudite and informed examination of the influence of photography on the concept oftravel, and reversely, of the wider world on photography as a means to record and introduce locations previously inaccessible to the majority. * State Magazine *
[Smiths] longstanding interests richly inform the early chapters of Photography and Travel, which also deals with the relations between photography and cultures of travel from the announcement of photography in 1839 to the present day . . . Smith offers a richly informed descriptive account of the leading photographers in a chronological series of chapters . . . Within each of these chapters, the broadly chronological account is elaborated by subheadings that relate variously to the leading photographers and their studios, the countries in which they worked (including France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, China and Japan), and the changing genres and formats of travel photography, from the prints, albums and lantern slides of the nineteenth century, to the twentieth centurys Kodak snaps, postcards, and illustrated books and magazines. History of Photography * State Magazine *
This book covers the visualised world of travel and tourism, and of all the subjects in this eminently pleasing series, Exposures, is unquestionably the largest in its scope. Graham Smith copes with this in his characteristically skilful, erudite and intelligible manner . . . The pictures are numerous and are well printed, which properly allows us to spend time with them, and to think directly about them . . . an excellent book * Studies in Photography *
Book Information
ISBN 9781861899125
Author Graham Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 188
Imprint Reaktion Books
Publisher Reaktion Books
