The history of vintage photography in Egypt has been very much enriched by the work of Hippolyte Arnoux, a French commercial photographer based in Port Said. His own history is sketchy, but he is known to have been active in the middle east from the 1860s to the 1890s. He collaborated with Antonio Beato in Luxor and the Zangaki brothers who were also based in Port Said. Arnoux is well known for his vintage photographs of topographical subjects and quirky studio photographs depicting traditional life and costume. He famously photographed the excavation for the Suez Canal in the 1860s and published the resulting photographs as Album du Canal de Suez. Arnoux also created some of the most collectible images of the pyramids, the sphinx and the Muslim holy places.
Vintage Photography - Egypt - Hippolyte Arnoux
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