The Great Sphinx of Giza (photo by Maxime Du Camp)  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Revision as of 22:17, 15 January 2014; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Jump to: navigation, search
The Great Sphinx of Giza by Maxime Du Camp, 1849, taken when he traveled in Egypt with Gustave Flaubert.
Enlarge
The Great Sphinx of Giza by Maxime Du Camp, 1849, taken when he traveled in Egypt with Gustave Flaubert.

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

The Great Sphinx of Giza (1849) is the informal title of a photo by Maxime Du Camp, taken when he traveled in Egypt with Gustave Flaubert.

The Sphinx's head and shoulders look out from the hole dug by Karl Richard Lepsius.

This calotype is one of the first known photographs of the Sphinx, taken only four years after the Giza plateau was mapped by Lepsius and his German expedition, and fifty years after the Sphinx was sketched by Vivant Denon in the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.

The photo was published in 1852 in one of the earliest books to be illustrated with real photographic prints made from negatives - in this case calotype paper negatives.

Du Camp traveled with Flaubert in Egypt between 1849 and 1851. 'No drawing I have seen conveys a proper idea of it,' wrote Flaubert, 'the best thing is an excellent photograph that Max took.'

In one of Du Camp's two photographs, the benefits of the recent sand-clearances are still to be seen. In the background is the pyramid of Menkaure. Khafre's pyramid is out of frame to the right.

Du Camp's book Egypte, Nubie, Palestine, Syrie (1852) was illustrated with 125 photographic plates made from calotype paper negatives.


Other version: [1]




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "The Great Sphinx of Giza (photo by Maxime Du Camp)" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools