An Early Album of the World. Photographs 1842-1896.

Featuring a broad selection of photographs from Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and other French partner museums, the exhibition catalogue explores the circumstances in which photography was introduced in Europe since 1839 and then practiced around the world, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas by leading photographers like Jacques-Philippe Potteau, Isidore van Kinsbergen, Auguste Bartholdi, Désiré Charnay, Muhammad Sadiq Bey, Lala Deen Dayal, Abdullah Brothers and Timothy O’Sullivan. It also features a selection of historical texts on photography by prominent theologian and philosopher, the Emir Abd el-Kader.

Authors: Christine Barthe (ed.), Carmen Pérez González, Issam Nassar, Éric Geoffroy

Hardcover, 192 pages

Format 28.5 x 24 cm

Over 100 photographs

Available in Arabic, English and French

157.50 AED

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