Stillness of Hajj Ishmael Maxime du Camp's 1850 Photographic Encounters

Name: Stillness of Hajj Ishmael Maxime du Camp's 1850 Photographic Encounters
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ISBN: 9781450203067

ISBN-10: 145020306X

ISBN-13: 9781450203067

Edition: 2009

Authors: Julia Ballerini

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Du Camp's traveling companion Gustave Flaubert once remarked: "I don't know why Maxime hasn't killed himself with this raging mania for photography." The Stillness of Hajj Ishmael explores this "mania" as a manifestation of the cultural hypochondria typical of Du Camp's time and social class, linking the general anxiety of the age over the apparent demise of French culture with the personal travails of Du Camp, who grew up an orphan. The book explores the role played by Nubian sailor Hajj Ishmael inDu Camp's photographs, travel writings, journals and novel as a unique marker of a malaise simultaneously subjective and historical.

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/24/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English