Palmyra
Title
Palmyra
Description
These photographs of Palmyra, Syria, are printed as glossy silver gelatin prints and were likely taken with a hand-held camera and celluloid film. Despite this use of twentieth-century technologies, the photographs follow a tradition of travel photography dating back to at least the 1850s, when French writer Maxime Du Camp visited and photographed the sites in Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, and Syria. Like Du Camp’s earlier photographs, these photographs of Palmyra focus only on ancient sites, leaving out any traces of the modern world that brought travellers and cameras to these sites.
People
photographer unknown
Date
1960s
6.5 x 9.5 cm
TR 790 P36 1950z
6.5 x 9.5 cm
TR 790 P36 1950z
Files
Citation
photographer unknown, “Palmyra,” Bruce Peel Special Collections Library Online Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/items/show/3122.