Vue du Village d'Edfou
1849–50
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 5 13/16 × 8 1/8 in. (14.8 × 20.6 cm) Mount: 12 5/16 × 18 11/16 in. (31.2 × 47.5 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
2005.100.376.94
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About this artwork
This photograph captures the Egyptian village of Edfu (Edfou), located on the west bank of the Nile between Esna and Aswan, during the pioneering era of travel photography in the Middle East. The image presents the village architecture and landscape with the documentary clarity characteristic of early photographic processes, revealing the physical environment of mid-nineteenth-century Egypt to European audiences. The photograph demonstrates Du Camp's ability to work under challenging conditions ...
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...