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Indepth Arts News: "Souvenirs of the Nile: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt" 2000-07-01 until 2000-09-24 Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA United States of America
These firms provided picturesque views of the
ancient monuments which could be carried back as mementos of a journey. The photographs in this
exhibit were collected by Maria Tamsin Hersey while on tour in the 1890s. The subjects range from
the pyramids of Giza to the temple of Isis at Philae. With the advent of the hand-held camera, images
like these were soon to be replaced by do-it-yourself snapshots.
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