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Maxime Du Camp — Temple de Kardassy, Nubie, plate 87 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852)
Maxime Du Camp

Temple de Kardassy, Nubie, plate 87 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852)

1849

Remote Nubian temples like Kardassy were documented for the first time through Du Camp's camera, preserving visual records of monuments that would later face submersion by modern dam construction.

Medium
Salted paper print

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Maxime Du Camp, Temple de Kardassy, Nubie, plate 87 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852), 1849

Remote Nubian temples like Kardassy were documented for the first time through Du Camp's camera, preserving visual records of monuments that would later face submersion by modern dam construction.

Medium
Salted paper print
Year
1849
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Documentary, Architectural, Photograph, Egypt, Temple, Historical, Salted Paper Print

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art