[Album of Egyptian and Turkish photographs. Volume 1 / assembled by Rudolf H. and Lulu Reinhart in 1906 on their wedding trip]

Reinhart, Rudolf · 1906 · 90 pictures

This is an album of sepia photographs compiled in 1906 by Rudolf H. Reinhart and Lulu Reinhart as a personal record of their wedding trip through Egypt and Turkey. The pictures show ancient Egyptian temple colonnades with carved capitals beside Ottoman-era arcades, stairs, and ornamented interiors. A designer might take from them the strong vertical rhythm of columns, the carved lotus and papyrus capitals, and the lattice and arch details of Islamic architecture rendered in warm monochrome tones.

Egypt -- Pictorial works · Turkey -- Pictorial works · Egypt -- Antiquities

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