Kati Horna

Désiré Charnay

Born near Lyons, France in 1828, the traveler and amateur archeologist Désiré Charnay came to America at an early age – he was teaching French in New Orleans at the age of 17. Inspired by John Lloyd Stephen’s accounts, he made his first trip to Mexico in 1857 where he was inspired by the exotic scenery. Initially Charnay focussed on photography, of which he was a pioneer, documenting the ubiquitous ruins that littered the ancient sites of Mexico.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/abbot.xml

 

Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray

Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884) is known as the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making.

 

 

Maxime Du Camp

 

Maxime Du Camp

France, 1882-1894

Du Camp learned calotyping from Gustave Le Gray and in 1849 persuaded the French Ministry of Education to send him on a photographic tour of archeological sites, accompanied by the novelist Gustave Flaubert. Du Camp focused on photographing the pyramids, the sphinx and other Egyptian monuments. On their twenty-one-month tour, Du Camp made 220 calotypes, 125 of which were printed by Louis-Desire Blanquart-Evrard and published as Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie, the first book about the Middle East illustrated with actual photographs. After his return, Du Camp gave up photography and devoted his time to writing.

 

EXCURSIONS DAGUERRIENNES

In search of these image’s :

After the invention of photography, the East, raising curiosity of people, has lead to the expansion of the West with the help of tourism. Earlier, artist, etchers and caricaturists have been carrying the curiosity of the East to their countries with their drawings during the excursions to the East.

However, East seemed more realistic with the invention of photography. Traveling became faster. The travels made on to the so-called sweet shores of Asia, the shores starting from Istanbul continuing to Tunisia, got the attention of West.

The artists, knowing Daguerrotyping, Frederic Goupil and his nephew Horace Vernet, making an album of the photographs they took at the sweet shores, promoted their publications by exhibiting at the shop of Lerebours who was a publisher and a optician.

Other than Frederic Goupil, illustrated drawings from daguerreotypes taken by Pierre Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere and Girault de Pranget were in the album published by N.P. Lerebours in Paris between 1840 and 1844, including 114 travel pictures by the name of EXCURSIONS DAGUERRIENNES: VUES ET MONUMENTS LES PLUS REMARQUABLES DU GLOBE (1840-1844) / Daguerrian excursions: The most remarkable view and monuments of the world.

JOSEPH PHOLBERT GIRAULT DE PARANGEY who was researching Islamic architecture, Daguerreotyped over 1000 in the Middle East between 1843 and 1845. Illustrations from these were printed in Paris in 1846 by the name of MONUMENTS ARABES D’EGYPTES DE SYRIE ET D’ASIE MINEURE DESSINES ET MESURES DE 1842 A 1845 / Arabic monuments from Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor, drawings and measures from 1842 to 1845.

 

 

Egyptian Mirage 

19th-century “studio” photographs of Egypt Based on the collection in the Archive of the Griffith Institute, Oxford

http://www.ashmolean.org/gri/mirage/gi00211.html 

 

Pyramid calotype

Smith, John Shaw Irish (1811-1873)
TITLE ON OBJECT: Two small pyramids, Pyramid of Ekphrenes in distance.
Feb. 1852
calotype negative
17.0 x 22.0 cm. (irreg.)

 

G. Zangaki

Little is known about the two C. and G. Zangaki brothers even though large amounts of their photographs are found in nineteenth century travel albums of the Middle and Near East.