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Two Arab Women from Egypt
The Zangaki brothers were commercial photographers resident in Egypt and active from the 1860s to the 1890s. Their pictures captured the local sights and antiquities, but also Cairo street scenes and ethnic groups. They were usually stiff and posed, focusing on clothing and other signs of exotic difference, as here. They catered for a growing Western tourist market in the Middle East.
Name: N. 737. Deux femmes arabes
Material: Albumen, negative inscribed
Size:
Width: 20.32 cm (8 in)
Length: 26.67 cm (10.5 in)
Date: 1870
Place of Origin: Egypt
Location: University of Chicago Middle East Photo Archive
Source and Registration#: University of Chicago Middle East Photo Archive Acquisition number 256-91 Link to resource
(accessed May 7, 2010).
Martin Stokes
Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford University
