Holmes, Travelogues
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In a time before air travel or radio, Burton Holmesset out across
the globe. The “world’s greatest traveler” visited nearly every
country on the planet, bringing home more than 30,000 photographs,
500,000 feet of film, and unbelievable travel storiesthat first
exposed America to some of these far-flung, mysterious lands. A
rare window onto the world of 100 years ago.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 filmswith audiences across America. 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, Delhi,
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. A rare window onto the world of
100 years ago, it is also the ultimate inspiration to strike out on
a travel adventure of your own.The editor In the 1960s, Genoa
Caldwellwas the New York-based photo researcher for the London
Sunday Times, as well as photo editor for both Black Starand
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.