December 5, 2017
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Ola Seif, « Topographical Photography in Cairo: The Lens of Beniamino Facchinelli », Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, ID : 10.4000/books.inha.4884
Nineteenth century photographs of Cairo, especially the last quarter of it, were commonly represented in compiled albums which followed to a fair extent, visually, the section on Egypt in Francis Frith’s publications. Typically, they contained an assortment of topics revolving around archaeological monuments from Upper Egypt, the pyramids and panoramic views of Cairo such as the Citadel, in addition to façades and courtyards of Islamic monuments, mainly the mosques of Sultan Hasan and Ibn Tu...