Rome: Eternal City presents Rome seen through the eyes of over a
century and a half of architectural experts. The breathtaking
photographs collected in this volume are drawn from the archives of the
Royal Institute of British Architects, founded in London in 1834. Having
famassed architectural photography since the conception of photographic
media, the RIBA now contains one of the largest such collections in the
world. Over time, that collection captured Rome from landscape to close
archeological detail, through history ranging from antiquity to
contemporary structures. The photographs themselves were taken largely
by British architectural writers and photographers: James Anderson,
Richard Bryant, Ralph Deakin, Ivy and Ivor de Wolfe, Monica Pidgeon and
Edwin Smith. Rome: Eternal City also includes essays on related
topics, such as the origins of photography in Rome, the hold Rome has
had on British photographers and filmmakers, and others.