Antonio Beato
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Antonio Beato, also known as Antoine Beato, was an Italian-British photographer. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, views of the architecture and landscapes of Egypt and other locations in th
Village of Karnak, photograph by Beato, 1880s
Luxor Temple, Luxor, Egypt. Albumen silver print by Antonio Beato, taken between 1860 and 1889
James Robertson was an English gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, and who became a pioneering photographer working in the Crimea and possibly India. He is noted for his Orie
Antonio Beato
…training in photography. He may have become interested in photography through his brother, Felice, who is believed to have met the British photographer James Robertson in Malta in 1850, and purchased photographic equipment in Paris in around 1851, and later that year accompanied Robertson to Constantinople in 1851…
James Roberton, photograph by the Abdullah Bros, c. 1875
Süleymaniye Mosque in Constantinople, photograph by Robertson, 1853
Erechtheum Acropolis, photograph, 1853
Obelisk of Theodosius in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, c. 1854