The daguerreotype was the first readily available photographic technique. The process required great care in the preparation and sensitization of the silver-plated copper plate, as well as in the development and fixing of the image. Exposure times ranged from three to fifteen minutes., Title and dat ...

John Beasley Greene was the first Egyptologist who was also a photographer. This print is from his second trip to Upper Egypt to excavate the Mortuary Temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu and Thebes in Luxor. Greene’s photographs of Egypt emphasize the scale of the sky and the landscape, as if to ...