RE: Viewing Egypt: Image and Echo

by جمال الغيطاني and Xavier Roy

In Re: viewing Egypt, Xavier Roy's breathtaking photographs of Egypt offer us a haunting vision of a country and its people. They are also a lesson in the art of photography itself, inviting us to experience images as metaphor, to extend our notions of reality. 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774162951
• ISBN13: 9789774162954
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 9.7"