Kaire. Mouristan. Det.[ail]

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Kaire. Mouristan. Det.[ail]

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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

French Daguerreotypist · 1804–1892

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Until recently, pioneering daguerreotypist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was unknown in the world of fine-art photography. His extraordinary images were discovered in a storeroom of his estate in the 1920s and only made known some eighty years later. Girault de Prangey studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and learned daguerreotypy in 1841, the same year inventor Louis-Jacque

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1843
Medium
Daguerreotype
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
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View shows part of the minaret at the complex of Sultan Qala'un, which included a mosque, madrasa and hospital. The constrasting pattern of black-and-white marble no longer exist.

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