Research Catalog
Egypt
- Title
- Egypt [graphic] / Susannah Hays.
- Author
- Hays, Susannah, 1959-
- Publication
- San Francisco : Susannah Hays, 1993
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Still image | By appointment only | MFZ+ (Hays) 94-328 | Schwarzman Building - Photography Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Description
- 1 v. (20 photographic prints); 35 x 27 cm. in portfolio 37 x 28 cm.
- Summary
- Photographs of markets, mosques, street scenes, and ancient monuments and temples in Egypt.
- Subjects
- Gods, Egyptian
- Aswān (Egypt)
- Pottery > Egypt
- Artists' books > United States
- Papyrus (Writing material) > Specimens
- Luxor (Egypt)
- Streets > Egypt
- Silver gelatin prints
- Markets > Egypt
- Children > Egypt
- Temple of Horus (Idfū, Egypt)
- Bookbinding (binding) > United States > 20th century
- Abū Sunbul (Egypt)
- Cairo (Egypt)
- Photographic prints
- Eggs
- Interior architecture > Egypt
- Men > Egypt
- Women > Egypt
- Papyrus bookbindings
- Mosques > Egypt
- Temples > Egypt
- Genre/Form
- Papyrus bookbindings.
- Bookbinding (binding) – United States – 20th century.
- Photographic prints.
- Silver gelatin prints.
- Note
- Title from t.p.
- The photographs were printed archivally on Agfa's Portriga Rapid 118 and dry mounted on Rives B.F.K. white. The title page was hand-set in Herman Zapf's Michelangelo type and the text in Palatino. Printed on the Vandercook at The Press in Tuscanny Alley. The binding is Egyptian Papyrus over 8-ply museum board and Coptic sewn. Designed and produced by Susannah Hays. -- c.f. colophon.
- Edition limited to 15 copies and 3 artist's proofs. -- c.f. colophon.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Provenance (note)
- Gift of Matt Phillips, 1994.
- Contents
- Hathor with her bovine ears -- Mohammed Ali Mosque -- Sultan Hassan Mosque, interior -- Morning newspaper, Cairo -- Meeting at the market, Luxor -- Young girl man and donkey, Luxor -- Boy sleeping, Aswan -- Shoes -- Luxor street scene -- Imbaba -- Ladder -- Eggs -- Washing -- Bread for sale -- Pots drying -- Three men sitting -- Sugar cane -- Temple at Philae -- Temple of Horus, Edfu -- Temple of Hathor, Abu Simbel.
- Call Number
- MFZ+ (Hays) 94-328
- OCLC
- NYPG94-F29
- Author
- Hays, Susannah, 1959- photographer.
- Title
- Egypt [graphic] / Susannah Hays.
- Imprint
- San Francisco : Susannah Hays, 1993
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Provenance
- Gift of Matt Phillips, 1994.
- Local Note
- NYPL's copy #13/15.
- Local Subject
- Papyrus (Writing material) -- Specimens.
- Research Call Number
- MFZ+ (Hays) 94-328