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Maxime Du Camp — Grand Temple D’Isis, à Philoe (vue générale prise du nord), Nubie
Maxime Du Camp

Grand Temple D’Isis, à Philoe (vue générale prise du nord), Nubie

1850

Part of Du Camp's pioneering photographic documentation of Egypt and Nubia, this salt print represents one of the earliest systematic attempts to record ancient monuments using the newly invented medium of photography.

Medium
Salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process

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