Photography and Travel

Photography and Travel provides a lively account of the 170-year partnership between photography and travel. Graham Smith reviews the nineteenth century, from France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Japan to North America. He then moves to the twentieth century, ranging from seaside excursions to transcontinental travel by rail, road and air. As it has become more democratized, the methods and experiences of travel have developed in many unexpected directions, all of which have created their own new photographic narratives. Photography and Travel shows that photographers have often gone to great lengths - at considerable personal danger - to record exotic destinations, from the ice caves and crevasses of the Mer de Glace to the maw of Vesuvius, and from the summit of Mount Everest to the pock-marked surface of the moon.