Burton Holmes Travelogues, The Greatest Traveler of His Time
Wanderlust: Burton Holmes, the man who brought the world home
"All the delights of travel for those who stay at home."
It was the Belle Époque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870–1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Paris to China`s Great Wall, from the construction of the Panama canal to the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Holmes delighted in finding "the beautiful way around the world" and made a career of sharing his stories, colorful photographs, and films with audiences across America. As a young man, Holmes was mentored by John L. Stoddard, a pioneer of the U.S. travelecture circuit, who passed on his well-established mantle when he retired. Holmes roamed the globe throughout the summer and traversed the United States all winter, transforming the staid lecture tradition into an entertaining show. He coined the term "travelogue" in 1904 to advertise his unique performance and thrilled audiences with two-hour sets of stories timed to projections of multihued hand-painted glass-lantern slides and some of the first "moving pictures."
Paris, Peking, Dehli, Dubrovnik, Moscow, Manila, Jakarta, Jerusalem: Burton Holmes was there. He visited every continent and nearly every country on the planet, shooting over 30,000 photographs and nearly 500,000 feet of film. This book represents the best of the Holmes archive, brimming with brilliant color photographs not published in decades. A rare window on the world of 100 years ago, Burton Holmes Travelogues will transport you to a time that has all but evaporated, and inspire you to strike out on a journey of your own.
About the author:
In the 1960s, Genoa Caldwell was the New York-based photo researcher for the London Sunday Times, as well as photo editor for both Black Star and Magnum. While operating her own photo agency in Los Angeles in the 1970s, Caldwell was introduced to the work of Burton Holmes and became private archivist for the extensive and unique photographic collection. Caldwell has maintained the collection for over 30 years and has lectured and published on the life and work of Burton Holmes.
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Burton Holmes Travelogues, The Greatest Traveler of His Time
Caldwell, Genoa (Editor)
Holmes, Burton / Holmes, Burton Hardcover, 30.5 x 26 cm (12 x 10.2 in.), 368 pages $ 59.99 |
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Burton Holmes, Travelogues Excerpts from: "Lost and Found. The Cinema of Burton Holmes." Bruce Nolte, Pasadena, CA (c) BHHC 2004 |
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May I say I have just acquired this book and I have to write to you to tell you how deeply moved I am not only by the extraordinary photographs (this has to be one of the great photographic books of all time), but by the enormous efforts that you have put into the preservation and then publishing of this oeuvre (which could be compared to that of a Atget, on a world scale...). A wonderful, heartfelt work you have done here.
Richard Fairclough, Reader, United Kingdom
Richard Fairclough, Reader, United Kingdom
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