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Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay (2 May 1828 – 24 October 1915) was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries.
Apr 30, 2024 · prehistoric age. Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay (born May 2, 1828, Fleure, Fr.—died Oct. 24, 1915, Paris) was a French explorer and archaeologist, noted for his pioneering investigations of prehistoric Mexico and Central America. He was commissioned by the French government in 1857 and spent four years collecting relics in Mexico and ...
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French, 1828—1915. Claude Joseph Désiré Charnay was one of the first Europeans to photograph and document Pre-Columbian ruins in Mexico and Central America, and his images are considered a valuable record of a transitional pre-historical Mexico. Expeditionary photographers of the nineteenth century embodied the era’s ideals with ...
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Artist: Désiré Charnay (French, 1828–1915) Date: 1857–89. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative. Dimensions: Image: 33.3 x 42.4 cm (13 1/8 x 16 11/16 in.) Mount: 54 x 70.8 cm (21 1/4 x 27 7/8 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2005. Accession Number: 2005. ...
Aug 1, 1982 · This well-written and illustrated book is of service on several levels. It places nineteenth-century “expeditionary photography” in historical perspective. For those of us primarily interested in Mesoamericana, it fills in the record on early Maya archaeological research.
- Gordon R. Willey
- 1981
Artist: Désiré Charnay (French, 1828–1915) Date: 1863. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative. Dimensions: Image: 27.8 x 20.4 cm (10 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.) Mount: 35.8 x 27 cm (14 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Sam Salz Foundation Gift, 2005. Accession Number: 2005.100.733
Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries.
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