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EGYPT)
ANTONIO BEATO
(
CIRCA
1832-1906)
Binder containing 75 largely unmounted photographs of ancient Egyptian sites in various sizes and
formats, many by Beato, with 16 additional 20th-century snapshots of tourists posing at these same
ancient locations more than 100 years later. Albumen (66) and silver (9) prints, 14x10 inches
(35.6
x25.4 cm.), and smaller, though most are 9x7 inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), and the reverse, 26 with
Beato’s signature in the negative; plus 16 chromogenic prints of an American family “in situ,” in
addition to an albumen print of a French industrial exposition. 1880s-1900s
[2,000/3,000]
An unusual suite of photographs in which Beato’s proto-modernist albumen prints appear alongside
later, early 20th-century enlargements of Egyptian sites and scenes, which are both juxtaposed against
late 20th-century “reenactments” by a happy family of American tourists, who are photographed in
these exact settings.