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Girault de Prange | The Oldest Photos You Will Ever See (1842)

Journey through the Eastern Mediterranean circa 1842, as seen through the lens of Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey's daguerreotypes. This captivating visual exploration unveils a world almost two centuries past, capturing architecture, landscapes, and daily life. Rediscover a historical treasure, forgotten for decades, now shared in remarkable detail.

With the use of his camera, a technology that had been released to the public just three years before, he documented the local sites and people, and created a collection of photos that in many cases are the earliest to survive of the countries depicted.


In this video, we’ll use Girault de Prangey’s collection of photographs to retrace his journey, and discover the world of the Eastern Mediterranean as it looked almost two hundred years ago.


Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (21 October 1804 - 7 December 1892) was a French scholar and draughtsman whose use of photography while he was active in the Middle East pursuing archaeology and studying ancient architecture has made him recognized as an important early photographer.


His daguerreotypes are the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Palestine, Italy, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. After his death in 1892, his carefully stored photographs were discovered in the attic of his estate in the 1920s and they only became known as important works eighty years later.



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