Rare Photos of
Egypt from the 1870s
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hình ãnh quý hiếm kũa Ai kập từ thập niên 1870
The New York Public
Library has shared an
incredible gallery of over 9,000 photographs and illustrations of the
Middle East from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
These include, books, albums and archival compilations.
Monuments of
ancient Egypt and the Biblical world figured prominently in the early years
of photography. French Academician François Arago (1786-1853) endorsed the
new medium in 1839 claiming it would provide a labor-saving means “to copy
the millions and millions of hieroglyphics which entirely cover the great
monuments at Thebes, Memphis and Carnac, etc.” Immediately artist-travelers
took chemicals, cameras, and photographic plates of metal, and later glass
into the regions around the southeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea,
to record the famous sights that had been known previously to Westerners
only through the intervention of the artist’s hand.
In addition to
early photographic pioneers Du Camp, Salzmann, Robertson & Beato, and
Frith, the collection includes work by image providers catering to tourist
travelers in the last third of the 19th century, such as Arnoux, A. Beato,
Bonfils, Lekegian, Sébah, and Zangaki. The selection offers resources for
exploring Western impressions of the Middle East in that era through the
lens of practitioners of the new medium of photography, and in turn through
the expectations, preferences, and assumptions of its consumers.
Below is a curated
selection of 30 photographs of Egypt from 1870-1875. Enjoy!
2. Cairo: Tombs of the Mamelukes to the citadel
3. The Al-Masalla Obelisk, Heliopolos (Cairo)
4. Alexandria
5. Tombs Chalifs, Lower Egypt
6. Cairo passage of Kasr-en-Nil [Qasr al-Nil]
7. Old Cairo: Sultan Hassan Mosque and the Citadel
8. Cairo: Garden of Ezbekieh [Azbakia]
9. Cairo: Mokattam, Giyuschi Mosque [al-Juyushi]
10. Tombs Chalifs, Kait Bay Mosque
11. Giza Pyramids and Tombs of Bedouins
12. View Towards the Pyramids of Giza
13. Route to Giza
14. Cairo: Kafr Near the Pyramids
15. Route to the Giza Pyramids
16. View of the Giza Pyramids
17. Climbing a Pyramid
18. Cairo: The Citadel and Mosque Mehemet Ali [Muhammad Ali
Basha]
19. Cairo: Mosque el Azhar (the students)
20. Cairo Mosque el Mouaiyad [Mu'ayyad]
21. Brechin [el-Badrashin] Ramses II Colossus, Lower Egypt
22. Sakkara [Saqqara] Step Pyramid
23. Camels in the Desert
24. Luxor: The temple, Ramses statues
25. Luxor: Temple and Columns
26. Karnak: The Grand Temple
27. Karnak: The Grand Temple and Sacred Lake
28. Karnak Temple of Thothmes III [Tuthmosis III], the
Statues of Amenhotep I
29. Thebes: Ramesseum, statues of Osiris
30. Phylae the Booth
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