1st Edition
Palestine in Transition Frank Scholten’s Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period
Map of the main places Scholten visited between 1921 and 1923
Beyond the Frame: Window into the Unseen Histories of Palestine
Issam Nassar
Introduction. Revisiting Palestine Illustrated
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri
1. "A Frivolous Affair": The Pilgrimage to Nebi Rubin
Salim Tamari
2. A Transformed Rural Landscape: Scholten’s Visual Representation of Coastal Palestinian Villages Destroyed in 1948
Iyad Issa
3. A Middle Eastern Photosphere: 1920s Tel Aviv as Space, Statement, and Idea
Rebekka Grossman
4. Echoes of Daher al-'Omar: Land, Labor, and Architecture in Scholten’s Galilee
Sarah Irving
5. Part of the Palestinian Landscape: Jews in Scholten’s Photographs of 1920s Palestine
Yair Wallach
6. Capturing Urban Modernity: Architecture and Agriculture in Modern Jaffa
Nadi Abusaada
7. In the Southern Jordan Valley with Frank Scholten: Sacred Topography and the Revival of Jericho
Marc Dugas
8. Scholten’s Transjordanian Journey: A Kaleidoscopic Perspective on a Modern Holy Land
Norig Neveu
Index
Biography
Karène 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.
