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Egypt
People of Egypt

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Photographers: Hippolyte Arnoux (active 1860-1891), Félix Bonfils (1831-1885), Gabriel Lekegian (1853-1920), Pascal Sébah (1823-1886), Zangaki brothers (active 1860-1890s), and others. People of Egypt. 1870s-1880s. 43 albumen prints, mounted to board. Each between ca. 14,5 x 10,2 cm and 27,2 x 21,2 cm (mounts ca. 31,7 x 24 cm). Most numbered, titled, and signed in the negative in the lower margin.

This extensive group comprises studio portraits, staged outdoor compositions, and street scenes depicting men, women, and children presented as ethnographic “types” from Egypt, including dancers and musicians, water sellers, market vendors, craftsmen, donkey riders, Bedouins, camel drivers, shoe shiners, and sakkas along the Nile, as well as architectural views and interior scenes. The photographs originate primarily from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean and reflect the visual conventions developed by commercial studios serving the European tourist and export market at the time.