Full Description
Frank Scholten set out to produce an illustrated Bible, instead returning with captivating documentation of the modernist transformations and intimate views of Palestine from 1921 to 1923. He documented Palestine as the British Mandate was formally being established with a taxonomical and ethnographic eye, relating the modern world he photographed to Biblical passages to explain the complexity of social life in the Holy Land." Palestine in Transition traces the significance of Frank Scholten's documentation of the transformations occurring during the British Mandate period. By taking a geographical approach to the collection—like Scholten himself—this book revisits his incomplete project by presenting different regions through contributions by scholars specialized in each field, a century after his visit and the dramatic social, cultural, and political upheavals that the "Holy Land" has undergone since then.
Contents
Acknowledgement
Transliteration
List of Figures
Map of places
Foreword
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, Introduction. Revisiting Palestine Illustrated
1. Salim Tamari, A Frivolous Affair: The Pilgrimage to Nebi Rubin
2. Iyad Issa, A Transformed Rural Landscape: Scholten's Visual Representation of Coastal Palestinian Villages Destroyed in 1948
3. Rebekka Grossman, A Middle Eastern Photosphere: 1920s Tel Aviv as Space, Statement, and Idea
4. Sarah Irving, Echoes of Daher al-'Omar: Land, Labor, and Architecture in Scholten's Galilee
5. Yair Wallach, Part of the Palestinian Landscape: Jews in Scholten's Photographs of 1920s Palestine
6. Nadi Abu Saada, Capturing Urban Modernity: Architecture and Agriculture in Modern Jaffa
7. Marc Dugas, In the Southern Jordan Valley: The Sacred Topography and the Revival of Jericho
8. Norig Neveu, Scholten's Transjordanian Journey: A Kaleidoscopic Perspective on a Modern Holy Land
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