Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey

Pinson, Stephen C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

[Stated First Printing] Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xi, 237 pages: illustrations (some color), map; 25 x 28 cm. 

In 1842, the pioneering French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892) set out eastward across the Mediterranean with a custom-built camera to explore ancient lands that were largely unknown to the Western world. This book is the first to fully consider the hundreds of daguerreotypes that resulted from his three-year journey, many of which were made using innovative techniques that fascinate photographers to this day.