 
General reading
Perez, Nissan N., 1988, Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1839-1885, (New York: Harry N. Abrams) [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Francis Frith
Frith, Francis, 1857, Cairo, Sinai, Jerusalem, and the Pyramids of Egypt, (London: Mackenzie) [Δ]
Frith, Francis, 1863, Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids, (London: William Mackenzie) [Δ]
John Beasly Greene
Greene, John Beasley, 1854, Le Nil - monuments - paysages [The Nile - Monuments - Landscapes], (Lille: Imprimerie Photographique de Blanquart-Evrard) [2 volumes] [Δ]
Charles Piazzi Smyth
1865, 1 June, ‘On Magnesium‘, The Technologist, vol.5, pp.493-94 [Includes a letter, dated 2 Feb. 1865 from C. Piazzi Smyth to John Spiller.] [Δ]
1865, 22 September, ‘Photography, Magnesium, and the Pyramid‘, The Mechanics' Magazine, pp.179 [Δ]
Schaaf, Larry, 1979, ‘Charles Piazzi Smyth's 1865 Conquest of the Great Pyramid‘, History of Photography, vol.3, no.4, pp.331-354 [Δ]
Smyth, C. Piazzi, 1867, Life and Work at the Great Pyramid during the Months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865; with a Discussion of the Facts Ascertained, (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas) [3 volumes] [Δ]
Smyth, C. Piazzi, 1870, A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in the year 1865, (London: Henry Greenwood) [A discourse delivered before the Edinburgh Photographic Society on December 1st, 1869] [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
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