There is a series of photographs of the Yemeni youth skateboard culture in Sanaa in the Toronto Star.
Category Archives: Photography
Picturing Yemen #8
Thula’, May, 2005; Photo by Daniel Martin Varisco
With Baldensperger in Palestine #3
As begun in a previous post, here is another excerpt from Philip J. Baldensperger’s The Immovable East, published in 1913, and available for free as a pdf at archive.org.
With Baldensperger in Palestine #2
As begun in a previous post, here is another excerpt from Philip J. Baldensperger’s The Immovable East, published in 1913, and available for free as a pdf at archive.org.
Picturing Yemen #6
woman in Sanaa, March, 1978; Photo by Daniel Martin Varisco
Picturing Yemen #5
near al-Tawila, September, 1978; Photo by Daniel Martin Varisco
Tabsir Redux: Leaves from an old Bible Atlas #7
Hurlbutt’s Atlas, p. 137
Hurlbutt’s Atlas, p. 133
The Christian fascination with the Holy Land as a window into interpretation of the Bible has a long and indeed fascinating history of its own. Here I continue the thread on Jesse Lyman Hurlbutt’s A Bible Atlas (New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1947, first published in 1882). As might be expected, a large part of the atlas is devoted to Jerusalem. Here are two century old pictures, one of the Dome of the Rock and the other a view of the Garden of Gethsemane looking toward an uncluttered landscape beneath the old city walls of Jerusalem.
[Tabsir Redux is a reposting of earlier posts on the blog, since memories are fickle and some things deserve a second viewing. This post was originally made on October 26, 2010.]
Babs of Yemen
For a nice photographic collage of Yemeni doors, check out this VIMEO offering.