Boûlâk. Carrefour (Mosquée, Café, etcetera)

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Boûlâk. Carrefour (Mosquée, Café, etcetera)

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Félix Teynard

French Photographer · 1817–1892

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In 1851, while a civil engineer in Grenoble, France, a center of Egyptological research, Félix Teynard embarked on a journey to photograph architectural structures in Egypt. Presumably self-taught in photography, Teynard traveled more than a thousand miles up the Nile River, "isolated in a region of unmitigated poverty . . . amidst the peoples of Egypt and Nubia," carrying his cumbersome, heavy eq

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Date
negative 1851–1852; print 1853
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
3e22f004-4bcf-4fdf-a85a-e6196d6114e8

A small cafe to the left of a large mosque. The cafe facade has a horseshoe arched doorway and windows below a decorative grill. A tree is growing above the building. The mosque has a single tower, which partially obscures a domed roof. The exterior is decorated with horizontal and zig-zagged stripe patterns.

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