Karnak, Portique du Temple de Khons; Thèbes, plate 29 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852)
Maxime Du Camp
1849/51, printed 1852
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
21.2 × 16.7 cm (image/paper); 43 × 30 (album page)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
144227
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...