{"id":8955,"date":"2011-02-25T01:39:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2011-02-25T01:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:39:02","slug":"pascal-sebah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/25\/pascal-sebah\/","title":{"rendered":"Pascal S\u00e9bah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provinces of Hedjaz (Hejaz), Yemen and Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (1873).<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo prints by Turkish photographer Pascal S\u00e9bah<\/a> (1823\u20131886) at the Library of Congress. I always like to see photos of ruins in the wild, so to speak, as they generally were in the 19th century before the imperatives of archaeology and mass tourism had cleaned, restored and reduced everything to the status of a museum exhibit or (in the case of the temple below) a shopping opportunity<\/a>. There’s more of Pascal S\u00e9bah’s work at Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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K\u00f4m Ombo (Sud Est) (The ruins of the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Ombos, Egypt, between 1860 and 1886).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Colosses de Memnon \u00e0 Th\u00e8bes (between 1860 and 1890).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provinces of Hedjaz (Hejaz), Yemen and Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (1873). Photo prints by Turkish photographer Pascal S\u00e9bah (1823\u20131886) at the Library of Congress. I always like to see photos of ruins in the wild, so to speak, as they generally were in the 19th century before … Continue reading “Pascal S\u00e9bah”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[6779,2307,146],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-photography","tag-ansel-adams","tag-pascal-sebah","tag-prague"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2kr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}