"The Holy City, a camera study of Jerusalem and it's surroundings" by Frank Hurley. This beautiful book of pictures presents the Holy City-old Jerusalem. Within the walls of this venerable city life has gone on almost unchanged for centuries, while outside has sprung up the modern Jerusalem, a place of cafes and cinemas, of commercialism and noisy life.
It was while he was official photographer to the British ministry of Information in the Middle East that Frank Hurley took these magnificent photographs; and we may be grateful for the forty pilgrimages he made to secure them. Indeed, they are so perfectly selected and timed, their composition so satisfying, that they have the created quality that belongs to works of art. Father Eugene Hoade, from his special knowledge of the Holy Places, contributes an interesting and valuable introduction.
The range of Mr. Hurley's camera has been extended to cover a borderland of some twenty miles of country that is saturated with the scenes and events of which old Jerusalem is the core. His photographic studies of Holy Places will appeal to people of all creeds and denominations and they will have a special interest for those men who served with the Forces in the Middle East, and for their relatives and friends.
This book was published just one year after the independent Jewish state of Israel was proclaimed.
Full of full pages photos, some colorized. Every photo comes with an explanation. Comes with original dust jacket. DJ has some tears. Book in very good condition otherwise. 11 x 8 3/4 inches. See the Archaeology ( Archeology), history, and true life as it was in old Palestine. An exploration through time and a discovery of the past.
