Illustrative model — an approximation, not a scan of the original object.
1959
Bani Salah, Fayyum — Paul Strand
Taken in 1959, printed in 1980.
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image 30.6 × 24.9 cm
- Findspot
- Taken at the village of Bani Salah in the Fayum
- Discovery
- From "Portfolio IV" by the American photographer Paul Strand, who photographed the Egyptian countryside in 1959.
- Held by
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Inventory number
- 1988.227.9
A black-and-white photograph of a village in the Fayum, taken by an American photographer who visited Egypt in Nasser’s early years.
It reflects a foreign photographer’s view of the Egyptian countryside, not a description by its own people.
Certainty: Established
The photograph is part of Paul Strand’s "Portfolio IV" and was taken in 1959.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art “Paul Strand, Bani Salah, Fayyum, Egypt, 1988.227.9” clevelandart.org