The Vehicle
Picturing Moments of Transition in a Modernizing Society

Language En/Ar
Published by the Arab Image Foundation, 1999
Editor: Akram Zaatari
72 pages

“A book of photographs from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria”, published by the Arab Image Foundation on occasion of the exhibition “Vehicle. Picturing Moments of Transition in a Modernizing Society” at Darat al Funun in October 1999. Divided into the sections “Looking at one’s self”, “Mobility”, “Speed”, “Liberation” and “Collective imagination”, it traces back the visual history of modern mobility to its very beginnings in the late 19th century.

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