Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Pyramids of Gizeh: Bonfils Photograph
Three pyramids rise above an open plain as camel riders cross the foreground. The almost empty sky and low horizontal ground leave the pyramids’ sloping outlines sharply defined. The historical caption uses the spelling Gizeh and credits Bonfils. Human movement remains a small but essential part of the landscape, setting the scale of the monuments in this photograph reproduced by Lewis Spence.
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Bonfils (photographic credit). "The Pyramids of Gizeh: Bonfils Photograph" [editorial title]. In Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, Lewis Spence. September 1923 Harrap reprint; first published August 1913, 1923, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Source scan leaf 45. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/egypt-documentary-plate-45
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
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Bonfils (photographic credit). The Pyramids of Gizeh: Bonfils Photograph. Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt. Scan leaf 45. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/egypt-documentary-plate-45