Portuguese Photography : since 1854

"This survey of Portuguese photography consists of rarities from the 19th century, historical and journalistic images, landscape photography, and the works of the most important modern and contemporary Portuguese photographers. The spectrum is wide, from street scenes of Lisbon to artistically stylized portraits, and all points between. Central to the book are those themes of Portugal's history, including the travel inherent in a once colonial power. The book includes many photographs from locales far outside of the country's actual borders." The catalogue for an exhibition titled Livro de Viagens (Book of Travels) held in 1998 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, and at the Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, presented by the Sociedade Portugal-Frankfurt 97, Lisbon