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Du Camp, Maxime
(1822-1894)Nécropole de Lycopolis; Vue générale d'Esneh

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Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Nécropole de Lycopolis; Vue générale d'Esneh. 1850. 2 salted paper prints (Blanquard-Evrard process). 16 x 21,2 cm and 14,4 x 21,5 cm (mounts ca 31 x 45 cm). Each mounted to original card with title, photographer's and publisher's name printed above/below the image on the mount. Plate numbers 12 and 64.

Maxime du Camp produced some of the earliest systematic photographic views of Egypt’s ancient monuments along the Nile, focusing on temples, tombs, and archaeological sites from Upper Egypt to Nubia. His images are characterized by carefully structured compositions that emphasize the scale and isolation of these ruins within the surrounding landscape. Working with early paper processes under demanding conditions, he used photography as a tool of documentation, creating images that balance topographical precision with a restrained, almost austere aesthetic.

Literatur: Bodo von Dewitz and Karin Schuller-Procopovici, eds. Die Reise zum Nil: 1849-1850. Göttingen: Steidl, 1997, ill. p. 76, 137.