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Aleppo, Viewed from the Antioch Gate 1844

Syria - Aleppo

The first photographs of the Syrian city of Aleppo - the Antioch Gate, mid-nineteenth century, 1844 AD

The photograph was taken by the French amateur photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, a wealthy scholar who studied painting in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. His daguerreotypes are among the oldest surviving photographs of Greece, Palestine, Italy, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey.

He traveled as an amateur in pursuit of historical archaeology, focusing on the fine details of architecture in his artwork.

He toured extensively in Italy and the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, producing more than 900 daguerreotypes of architectural views, landscapes, and portraits of people he encountered in their cultural environments.