Vue cavalière de la seconde cataracte, prise du haut de Djebel-Aboucir
Maxime Du Camp
March 24, 1850
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 7 7/8 × 6 5/16 in. (20 × 16 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.376.150
Tags
Landscapes
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...