Hippolyte Béchard
Hippolyte Béchard
French, born 1841, active 1869–1880s
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Person TypePerson
American, born France, 1832–1856
French, born Prussia, 1813–1889
BiographyBéchard opened a professional photographic studio in the Ezbekia Garden district of Cairo, Egypt, in 1869. Béchard exchanged photographs and negatives with the Turkish photographer J. Pascal Sébah. In 1888, his photographs of Egypt were published as photogravures in the book "L'Égypte et la Nubie", Paris, 1888.
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