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Egypt Recovered: The Photographic Surveys Of Maxime Du Camp, Félix Teynard, And John Beasley Greene, And The Development Of Egyptology, Kathleen Stewart Howe

Art & Art History ETDs

This dissertation examines the work of three photographers, Maxime Du Camp, Félix Teynard and John Beasley Greene, active in Egypt in the middle of the nineteenth century. In doing so, it relates the new technology of photography to the developing discipline of Egyptology in France. It proposes connections between the photographic oeuvres of Du Camp, Teynard, and Greene and contemporary trends in the study of Egyptian antiquity. It reveals the extent to which the personal circumstances of the three photographers mediated the influence of different sectors of the French academic and intellectual establishment.

The intent of this work is to …