| Names: | | | Dates: | 1819, 3 January - 1900, 21 February | | Born: | Italy, Naples | | Died: | UK, Yorkshire, Ripon | | Active: | Russia / Egypt | | Gender: | Male |
British astronomer and photographer. He became the Astronomer Royal for Scotland in 1845 and during a trip to South Africa he had the distinction of being the first calotypist in the country. In 1856 he made a voyage to Tenerife to assess its possibilities as an observatory. He traveled widely and wrote ‘Three Cities in Russia‘ (1862) and during his visit he took some of the earliest street photographs. In 1865 he traveled to Egypt to measure the Great Pyramid and he took photographs inside the monument and these are the earliest known - some of these were reproduced in his book ‘Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid‘.Preparing biographies
General reading
Schaaf, Larry, 1981, ‘Piazzi Smyth at Tenerife: Part 2: Photography and the Disciples of Constable and Harding‘, History of Photography, vol.5, no.1, pp.27-50 [LL_REF:2]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Schaaf, Larry, 1979, ‘Charles Piazzi Smyth's 1865 Conquest of the Great Pyramid‘, History of Photography, vol.3, no.4, pp.331-354 [LL_REF:323]
Schaaf, Larry, 1980, ‘Piazzi Smyth at Tenerife: Part 1: The Expedition and the Resulting Book‘, History of Photography, vol.4, no.4, pp.289-307 [LL_REF:325]
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