Temple d'Ombos, Haute-Egypte, plate 65 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852)
Maxime Du Camp
1849/51, printed 1852
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 17 × 22.1 cm (6 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.); Album paper: 29.9 × 42.9 cm (11 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
144277
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...