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Monumental Journey: Gyro de Prandje Daguerreotypes
Exhibition January 30 − May 12, 2019
Metropolitan Museum presents an exhibition "A Monumental Journey: The Gyro de Prandje Daguerreotypes".
In 1842, the artist, architectural historian, archaeologist and pioneer photographer Joseph-Philibert Giraud de Prandje (1804-1892) undertook a three-year photographic tour of the entire Eastern Mediterranean. He returned to France with more than a thousand daguerreotypes - an unparalleled feat in the history of photography. Among the images created by him are the earliest preserved photographs of Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Jerusalem, as well as one of the first daguerreotypes depicting Italy.
A pioneer of the daguerreotype process, Giro used large-size plates and innovative formats to create what is today the world's oldest photographic archive — all to serve a completely new type of archaeological fieldwork.
This exhibition, the first in the United States dedicated to Giraud de Prandje, and the first dedicated to his Mediterranean voyage, features about 120 of his daguerreotypes, supplemented by examples of his graphic works - watercolors, paintings and lithographic illustrated publications.
Based on the materials of the official site Metropolitan Museumand site gothamtogo.com.
In 1842, the artist, architectural historian, archaeologist and pioneer photographer Joseph-Philibert Giraud de Prandje (1804-1892) undertook a three-year photographic tour of the entire Eastern Mediterranean. He returned to France with more than a thousand daguerreotypes - an unparalleled feat in the history of photography. Among the images created by him are the earliest preserved photographs of Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Jerusalem, as well as one of the first daguerreotypes depicting Italy.
A pioneer of the daguerreotype process, Giro used large-size plates and innovative formats to create what is today the world's oldest photographic archive — all to serve a completely new type of archaeological fieldwork.
This exhibition, the first in the United States dedicated to Giraud de Prandje, and the first dedicated to his Mediterranean voyage, features about 120 of his daguerreotypes, supplemented by examples of his graphic works - watercolors, paintings and lithographic illustrated publications.
Based on the materials of the official site Metropolitan Museumand site gothamtogo.com.
