Re:Viewing Egypt
Image and Echo
Published on 31. July 2010
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-906598-64-8 (ISBN)
Description
Xavier Roy's breathtaking photographs of Egypt offer us a haunting vision of a country and its people. Roy draws us into Egypt's mystique, its scintillating waters, bucolic vistas, ruins, and places of worship. We observe the correspondences of shape and texture, perspective and repetition, light and shadow, and the vitality in the mundane and commonplace.
Reviews / Votes
'In Re:viewing Egypt, Xavier Roy's photographs of Egypt offer us a hunting vision of a country and its people. They are also a lesson in the art of potography itself, inviting us to experience images to extend our notions of reality...' The Middle East 201010More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
90
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 220 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-906598-64-8 (9781906598648)
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Persons
Xavier Roy's photographs have been exhibited in France, New York, and Brazil, and his published books include The Soul of Cuba and All Our Children. Gamal al-Ghitani was born in 1945 and is the author of the Mahfouz Dialogues (2007), Zayni Barakat (Penguin, 1988) Pyramid Texts (AUC, 2007) and The Zafarani Files (Arabia Books, 2009). He is the Editor in Chief of the Cairo Literary Review and his novels have been translated into many languages.