Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Rania Khallaf)
- Photography Exhibition: Ten Years Of Photography In Egypt (modern Egypt)
Egypt Daily Star News (Laura Kasinof) Coptic priests, Bedouin women, and a blue-tinted photo of famous belly dancer Dina’s renowned tummy — these are some of the subjects of the latest photography exhibition on display at the German Embassy in Zamalek....
- Xenia Nikolskaya's Photographs
Al Ahram Weekly (Rania Khallaf) Nikolskaya first came to Egypt in 2003 as part of a Russian archaeological mission to Memphis, a joint project between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Russian Academy of Science. Three years later she returned,...
- Photography At The Fitzwilliam Museum (uk)
Fitzwilliam Museum Home Page This will have only a very localized relevance to people visiting musums in the U.K., but I thought it might be of use to some. I recently emailed the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (U.K.) to ask whether they permitted photography...
- History From On High
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1937151,00.html A new exhibition in London, UK, looks at some of our more admirable achievements from the air in an exhibition entitled The Past From Above, at the British Museum from November 16 2006 to February...
- Added Exhibition: Photography And Egyptology
http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2006/2006-07-14-ancientegypt.htmA long article featuring the role of photography in the long history of Egyptology and other heritage projects: "War, politics, religious movements and natural disasters — all key...
Egypt
Egypt's history in photographs
Al Ahram Weekly (Rania Khallaf)
Presenting Egypt's history through photography is a recurrent theme in today's art galleries. However, it can be hard to get a sense of Egypt's long history through a single exhibition, since the country's modern history can be divided into many periods and these cannot be done justice to in a single exhibition.
"One Hundred and Fifty Years of Egypt's Modern History" was the title of a photography exhibition recently held at the Music Library attached to the Cairo Opera House. But which part of Egypt's modern history does the title refer to?
Visiting the exhibition, which ended last week, I was surprised to find that only 130 black-and-white pictures were on show to cover this long period. Though the exhibition was organised by photographer Samir El-Ghazouli, not a single picture had his name on it. When I met El-Ghazouli, I found that the whole collection consisted of photographs taken by his father, pioneer photographer Mohamed El-Ghazouli (1900-1963).
El-Ghazouli Senior was the private photographer of King Fouad until the latter's death in 1936, and he was also one of the first photographers to work at the photography section of Al-Ahram in the 1930s.
- Photography Exhibition: Ten Years Of Photography In Egypt (modern Egypt)
Egypt Daily Star News (Laura Kasinof) Coptic priests, Bedouin women, and a blue-tinted photo of famous belly dancer Dina’s renowned tummy — these are some of the subjects of the latest photography exhibition on display at the German Embassy in Zamalek....
- Xenia Nikolskaya's Photographs
Al Ahram Weekly (Rania Khallaf) Nikolskaya first came to Egypt in 2003 as part of a Russian archaeological mission to Memphis, a joint project between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Russian Academy of Science. Three years later she returned,...
- Photography At The Fitzwilliam Museum (uk)
Fitzwilliam Museum Home Page This will have only a very localized relevance to people visiting musums in the U.K., but I thought it might be of use to some. I recently emailed the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (U.K.) to ask whether they permitted photography...
- History From On High
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1937151,00.html A new exhibition in London, UK, looks at some of our more admirable achievements from the air in an exhibition entitled The Past From Above, at the British Museum from November 16 2006 to February...
- Added Exhibition: Photography And Egyptology
http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2006/2006-07-14-ancientegypt.htmA long article featuring the role of photography in the long history of Egyptology and other heritage projects: "War, politics, religious movements and natural disasters — all key...