Photography

Pictures from the Surface of the Earth


by Wim Wenders

German film director Wim Wenders always carries an old panoramic camera. As this collection of his landscape photography attests, over the past 30 years he has used it to capture vast stretches of barren terrain and sleepy backwater towns. The images resemble ready-made sets for his offbeat, melancholic films such as 1984's Paris, Texas.

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In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits

Remembering Roberto Rossellini
by Isabella Rossellini

'I don't know whether you are a genius, Dad. But I love you.'

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Palestinian Costume


by Shelagh Weir

THE TRADITIONAL COSTUMES OF THE Palestinian villagers and Bedouin are of exceptional beauty and diversity, especially the festive costumes of the women with their lavish silk embroidery and patchwork and their dramatic headdresses encrusted with coins. This book surveys male and female fashions from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, and describes the main regional styles of costume, their materials and ornamentation, against the background of Palestinian life and culture. The emphasis throughout the book is on the social and symbolic significance of costume, and the final chapters analyze in detail the language of costume in the context of the wedding. The book is based on extensive field research the author has conducted at intervals since 1967 among Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Territories, and Jordan. The illustrations include studio photographs of magnificent garments in the British Museum and other collections, archive photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and recent photographs of costumes still made and worn.

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