Paul Dittrich
{{Short description|Austrian photographer (1868-1939)}}
Paul Dittrich (11 November 1868, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 30 December 1939, Salzburg, Nazi Germany) was an Austrian photographer who established himself in Ottoman Egypt in 1894. He succeeded Ignaz Heyman at Heyman's studio in Cairo. Dittrich was one of the photographers to the Court of Egypt.
American journalist Amédée Baillot de Guerville refers to him in his book New Egypt (1905) by stating:
"To those in Cairo I can thoroughly recommend either M. Lekégian or M. Dittrich, photographer to the Court. The latter has a wonderful collection of portraits, admirably done, of all the more important persons. His rooms are a real museum of all the celebrities, masculine and feminine, whom Cairo has known in the last five-and-twenty years."{{cite book |last=Guerville |first=Amédée Baillot de |author-link=Amédée Baillot de Guerville |title=New Egypt |url=https://archive.org/stream/newegypt01guergoog/newegypt01guergoog_djvu.txt |access-date=23 July 2009 |year=1905 |publisher=W. Heinemann |location=London |oclc=5663657 |page=xiii |chapter=Introduction |isbn=9781931956659 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNpmWDsBWXYC&pg=PR13}}
Gallery
File:Abbas II of Egypt.jpg|Khedive Abbas II of Egypt, c. 1900
File:A Coptic Priest. (1918) - TIMEA.jpg|A Coptic Priest, 1918
File:A Coptic woman of the Poorer Class. (1918) - TIMEA.jpg|A Coptic woman of the Poorer Class, 1918
The Mosque of Mohamed Ali (1906) - TIMEA.jpg|The Mosque of Mohamed Ali, 1906
File:Ghezireh Bridge (1906) - TIMEA.jpg|Ghezireh Bridge (1906)
File:The Pulpit and Middle-Screen of the Church of Abu Sergeh. (1918) - TIMEA.jpg|The Pulpit and Middle-Screen of the Church of Abu Sergeh. (1918)
File:French Diplomatic Agency (1906) - TIMEA.jpg|French Diplomatic Agency (1906)
File:Österreichisch-ungarische Offiziere in Ägypten, 1906.jpg|Officers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy on a visit to Egypt, 1906
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|last=Hannavy|first=John|title=Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography |publisher=Routledge|year=2008|isbn=978-0-415-97235-2|publication-place=New York, NY|oclc=123968757}}
- Jacobson, Ken (2007). Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925. London: Quaritch. ISBN 9780955085253, OCLC [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883254420 883254420].
- Perez, Nissan N. (1988) Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1839-1885. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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Category:Expatriate photographers in Egypt
Category:Austrian photographers
Category:Portrait photographers
Category:Photographers from Austria-Hungary
Category:Expatriates from Austria-Hungary in the Ottoman Empire
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