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Sphinx & Pyramids of Chefren and Mankaura, Giza – Photograph via NYPL Digital Gallery
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
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
3. The Al-Masalla Obelisk, Heliopolos (Cairo)
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
4. Alexandria
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
5. Tombs Chalifs, Lower Egypt
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
6. Cairo passage of Kasr-en-Nil [Qasr al-Nil]
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
7. Old Cairo: Sultan Hassan Mosque and the Citadel
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
8. Cairo: Garden of Ezbekieh [Azbakia]
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
9. Cairo: Mokattam, Giyuschi Mosque [al-Juyushi]
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
10. Tombs Chalifs, Kait Bay Mosque
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
11. Giza Pyramids and Tombs of Bedouins
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
12. View Towards the Pyramids of Giza
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
13. Route to Giza
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
14. Cairo: Kafr Near the Pyramids
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
15. Route to the Giza Pyramids
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
16. View of the Giza Pyramids
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
17. Climbing a Pyramid
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
18. Cairo: The Citadel and Mosque Mehemet Ali [Muhammad Ali Basha]
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
19. Cairo: Mosque el Azhar (the students)
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
20. Cairo Mosque el Mouaiyad [Mu'ayyad]
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
21. Brechin [el-Badrashin] Ramses II Colossus, Lower Egypt
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
22. Sakkara [Saqqara] Step Pyramid
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
23. Camels in the Desert
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
24. Luxor: The temple, Ramses statues
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
25. Luxor: Temple and Columns
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
26. Karnak: The Grand Temple
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
27. Karnak: The Grand Temple and Sacred Lake
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
28. Karnak Temple of Thothmes III [Tuthmosis III], the Statues of Amenhotep I
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
29. Thebes: Ramesseum, statues of Osiris
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
30. Phylae the Booth
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Photograph via The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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