Ibsamboul, Sculptures de l'Entrée du Spéos de Phrè, Nubie, plate 105 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852)
Maxime Du Camp
1849/51, printed 1852
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 21.2 × 16 cm (8 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Album page: 43.1 × 30.1 cm (17 × 11 7/8 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
144319
About the Artist
Maxime Du Camp · 1822–present
Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894) was a pioneering French photographer and writer whose adventurous spirit and technical innovation bridged literature and visual art during the mid-19th century. Born in Paris on February 8, 1822, to a prosperous family—his father a successful surgeon—Du Camp received a solid bourgeois education at the Collège Bourbon (now Lycée Condorcet), where he cultivated interests i...