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Home : Picturing the Process : The Human Experience

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Francis Frith

British, b, 1822

Mount Horeb

1858
albumen print



See materials from the MOPA library

Francis Frith (1985)
Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs: 77 Views, by Francis Frith (1980)
Photography, Essays & Images: Illustrated Readings in the History of Photography, Edited by Beaumont Newhall (1980)

Find out more on the web

Francis Frith Biography (The Getty Museum)
Francis Frith Biography (The MOMA)
Photographers in Egypt

Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a donation from PhotoWings.

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