Having looked, in recent weeks, at photography in Ethiopia in the nineteenth century, we turn now to the twentieth century. The Opening Years of the Twentieth Century The opening years of the Twentieth Century witnessed the advent of increasing numbers of photographer-travellers. Hugues Le Roux A Frenchman Hugues Le Roux, who made his way westwards …
We saw last week that some of the earliest photographs to be taken in Ethiopia were those of the British expedition to Maqdala in 1867-8. Now read on:. In the late 1870s King Menilek of Shawa arranged to employ three Swiss craftsmen to help him in the modernisation of his country. Alfred Ilg The most …
We saw last week that the first photographs to be shot in Ethiopia were apparently shot by the Protestant missionary Henry Aaron Stern. These, as we shall now see, were followed by others, taken by the Napier Expedition of 1867-8, Now read on. The British campaign of 1867-8 was the first to take advantage of …
Optical science made its earliest impact on the recording of Ethiopian images in the late eighteenth century. The first to make use of it was the Scottish traveller James Bruce, who obtained a camera obscura to assist him in sketching the country. The apparatus, a cumbersome affair, was constructed according to his own specifications by …