In the 19th century, enterprising European photographers travelled to distant places such as Egypt, India, China, the American West, and the Pacific. Through the photographs they brought back, for the first time, people who had not travelled could see what the world looked like.
Later in the century, tourism as we know it today emerged, and local photographers in these countries supplied a demand for souvenir images to take home. Faraway Places shows an intriguing selection of both these types of photographs.
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