Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1839-1885.

Perez, Nissan N. Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1839-1885. New York: Harry Abrams, 1988. First edition. 4to. 256 pp. 275 b&w photos, daguerreotypes, albumen prints, salt prints, photogravures, stereo photos Brown cloth with d/j. The most comprehensive book on 19th century Near-Eastern photography. Includes the work every photographer known to have worked in the near-east during this period (over 250), with biographies on each of them. New in publisher’s shrink wrap. New in publisher’s shrink wrap. Hardcover. (7282) $25