Book by Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, and Salim Tamari examines the photography collections of Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904-1972), published as "The Illustrated History of Palestine," which documents life in Palestine from 1870 through 1948. Jawhariyyeh was a Palestinian musician and chronicler from Jerusalem who curated this photography collection over the span of several decades, from the mid-1920s through the mid-1960s. Photographs depict Palestinian life the final decades of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate era. In this book, Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari analyze narratives of modernity in Jawhariyyeh's collection, and how this photography both documented and shaped Palestinian life, land, and identity. A richly-illustrated study of photography, memory, and the social and cultural history of pre-Nakba Palestine. Valuable for researchers in visual culture, colonial history, and Palestinian studies examining how photography shaped and documented Palestinian life, colonial representation, and Palestinian claims to the land before and during the Nakba.
