The Great Pyramid and The Great Sphinx, 1858, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 38.7 x 49.3 cm (15 1/4 x 19 7/16 in.), Photographs, Francis Frith (British, Chesterfield, Derbyshire 1822–1898 Cannes, France), In 1856 Frith set out on the first of three trips to the Middle East, launching a highly successful career as a photographer and publisher of foreign topographic views. It is miraculous that he succeeded in making monumental and theatrical views such as this one, for the relatively new glass negatives required him to transport his enormous camera, sheets of glass, and bottles of chemicals through the desert and to coat, expose, and develop his plates before the collodion emulsion dried
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