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Legacies
of Cairo: "Medieval
Cairo (Old Cairo) is a hidden part of Metropolis Cairo that is
a treasure mostly overlooked by Cairenes as well as foreign visitors.
As I began discovering and pursuing my passion for photography,
I became entranced with the beauty of the Islamic and Coptic architecture
and the simplicity and humbleness of Cairenes... The culture and
traditions of Islamic Cairo, which date back to 641A.D., are visible
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Creswell's
Cairo: The recent photographs exhibited in Creswell’s Cairo: Then and Now were commissioned by the Islamic Art Network of the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation as part of its attempt to record all the extant treasures of Islamic Cairo and to stress the urgent need for the conservation and preservation of the Islamic City. |
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Baghdad When Amr Nabil returned to Baghdad in September 2002, he was already on edge, expecting war at any moment. "For me" he writes, "it was a matter of going on 24-hour alert. I used to even sleep next to my camera, ready for any contingency." |
The photographs in this exhibition are the work of 16 AP staffers and stringers who were part of the more than 100 AP reporters, photographers and editors who participated in the AP's Iraq war coverage. |
Oasis
The Photographs of Lehnert and Landrock
The early 20th-century North African photographs of Lehnert and Landrock reflect the particular concern of Lehnert (the actual photographer) for the desert, the oasis, and women. In contrast to the studied eroticism of his Tunisian courtyard portraits and tableaus staged with young prostitutes, Lehnert’s desert, oasis, and women of the oasis photographs are often extraordinary.
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Lehnert
& Landrock Between
1924 and 1930 Lehnert & Landrock, made a number of trips to
Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. Some 250 glass plates remain
as witness to those trips. The images displayed at the Sony
Gallery in the spring of 2001, and here in the Virtual Gallery,
are the result of Canadian master printer Chris Langtvet's work
with those plates.
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L'Orient
The
Photographs of Lehnert and Landrock
Lehnert and Landrock, writes S. Abdallah Schleifer in the catalog essay from this show, "discovered they shared a passion for 'L'Orient." Their photographs "helped define that portion of the West's understanding of the Orient that was attracted not merely by the exotic but also by the overwhelming beauty and dignity of the traditional Arab environment."
Osama Silwadi is a photographer whose vision is broadened by interests that transcend photojournalism without detracting from it. He contributed photographs to the first Palestinian tourism guidebook and since 1998 he has been documenting the lives of the West Bank bedouin who are constantly harassed and forced off the land by the Israelis. He has already published one book of photographs devoted to the lives of Palestinian women.
King
Fouad
At Work and Play
This selection of black and white photographs is taken from the vast collection of Mohamed El Ghazouly, court photographer during the reign of King Fouad. He was associated with Hanselman, who was the great genius of court photography at the time according to Barry Iverson and very much the favorite, particularly in the late 1920s.
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This premiere exhibition of our Virtual Gallery is now expanded to thirty-five photographs from the collection of portrait photographer Van-Leo, now housed in the Sony Gallery’s permanent collection at the AUC Van-Leo archives. Van-Leo’s dramatic portraits have been featured in three Sony Gallery shows.
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