
Palestine in Transition
Frank Scholten's Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period
Pallas Publications (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2026
Book
Hardback
198 pages
978-90-485-6229-9 (ISBN)
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 1921-1923. He documented Palestine as the British Mandate was formally being established, with a taxonomical and ethnographic eye, relating to the modern world he photographed through Biblical passage to explain the complexity of social life of the 'Holy Land'.
Palestine in Transition traces the importance of Frank Scholten's documentation of the transformations of the British Mandate period. By taking a geographical approach to the collection - like Scholten himself - this book effectively revisits his incomplete project by presenting different regions through discrete chapters 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.
Palestine in Transition traces the importance of Frank Scholten's documentation of the transformations of the British Mandate period. By taking a geographical approach to the collection - like Scholten himself - this book effectively revisits his incomplete project by presenting different regions through discrete chapters 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Illustrations
86 s/w Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-485-6229-9 (9789048562299)
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Persons
Karene Sanchez Summerer is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern studies at Groningen University and co-director of the Centre for Historical Studies. Her publications include (with Sary Zananiri) Imaging and Imagining Palestine- Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens (1918-1948) (2021).
Sary Zananiri is an artist, cultural historian and Senior Lecturer at Monash University. His research interests sit at the intersection of nationalism, colonialism, religious narrative and visual culture, with a particular focus on photography.
Sary Zananiri is an artist, cultural historian and Senior Lecturer at Monash University. His research interests sit at the intersection of nationalism, colonialism, religious narrative and visual culture, with a particular focus on photography.
Content
List of Figures Map of main places Scholten visited between 1921 and 1923 Beyond the Frame: Window into the Unseen Histories of Palestine Introduction. Revisiting Palestine Illustrated 1. "A Frivolous Affair": The Pilgrimage to Nebi Rubin 2. A Transformed Rural Landscape: Scholten's Visual Representation of Coastal Palestinian Villages Destroyed in 1948 3. A Middle Eastern Photosphere: 1920s Tel Aviv as Space, Statement, and Idea 4. Echoes of Daher al-'Omar: Land, Labor, and Architecture in Scholten's Galilee 5. Part of the Palestinian Landscape: Jews in Scholten's Photographs of 1920s Palestine 6. Capturing Urban Modernity: Architecture and Agriculture in Modern Jaffa 7. In the Southern Jordan Valley with Frank Scholten: Sacred Topography and the Revival of Jericho 8. Scholten's Transjordanian Journey: A Kaleidoscopic Perspective on a Modern Holy Land I ndex