Word: tasseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rosovsky and Tassel also selected several photographs by Francis Frith, a greengrocer who left his, shop in Liverpool in 1858 to take pictures of the Holly Land, and others by Sgt. James McDonald, who made his "Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem" for the British Army...
Among the works chosen by Tassel and Rosovsky were a number of prints by the French Bonfils family. Felix Bonfils, who settled in Beirut, began a well-known collection of photographs...
...Accompained by pocket-sized copies of the 'then' photos, which I had made to help select the best vantage point for my 'now' photos, and by Nitza's location instructions, I began to photograph in Israel in the summer of 1981," Tassel says...
During three trips to Israel, Tassel shot thousands of rolls of film, which later yielded hundreds of prints and dozens of "then" and "now" pairs...
When his 19th century predecessors attempted to photograph the Holly Land, they met unexpected resistance, Tassel says. As Christians, they did not understand the hostility of the native Arabs and Jews who were forbidden to create "graven images," he explains...