Sultanahmet Square
- Mar 3, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: Jan 2, 2021
Obelisk of Theodosiun
Spiral Bronze Column from Delphi
Blue Mosque
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892)
from the exhibition "Monumental Journey" at MET
In 1842, artist, architectural historian, archaeologist, and pioneer photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey embarked on a three-year photographic excursion throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, and he returned to France with more than one thousand daguerreotypes-an unparalleled feat in the history of photography. Among the images he created are the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Jerusalem and among the first daguerreotypes depicting Italy.
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