| Names: | | | Dates: | 1822, 8 February - 1894, 9 February | | Born: | France, Paris | | Died: | Germany, Baden-Baden | | Active: | France / Egypt | | Gender: | Male |
French photographer and writer. He traveled to Egypt with Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary, and brought back over 220 negatives.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired an excellent collection of his salted paper prints from paper negatives when they acquired the Gilman Collection in 2005.Preparing biographies
General reading
Aubenas, Sylvie & Roubert, Paul-Louis (eds.), 2010, Primitifs de la photographie, le calotype en France 1843-1860, (Gallimard BNF) [LL_REF:1268]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Dewachter, Michel & Daniel Oster, 1987, Un voyageur en Egypte vers 1850: Le Nil de Maxime Du Camp, (Paris: Sand/Conti) [LL_REF:1188 *B]
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 | Maxime Du Camp: Abu Simbel |
|  | Maxime Du Camp: Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie |
|  | Maxime Du Camp: Nubie, Syrie: Paysages et Monuments |
|  | Maxime Du Camp: View of Esna |
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Maxime Du Camp
France, 1882-1894
Du Camp learned calotyping from Gustave Le Gray and in 1849 persuaded the French Ministry of Education to send him on a photographic tour of archeological sites, accompanied by the novelist Gustave Flaubert. Du Camp focused on photographing the pyramids, the sphinx and other Egyptian monuments. On their twenty-one-month tour, Du Camp made 220 calotypes, 125 of which were printed by Louis-Desire Blanquart-Evrard and published as Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie, the first book about the Middle East illustrated with actual photographs. After his return, Du Camp gave up photography and devoted his time to writing.
From: Lee Witkin and Barbara London's The Photograph Collector's Guide, New York Graphic Society, Little Brown & Co., 1979.
[Contributed by Lee Gallery]
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
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