Leavitt Hunt
American photographer and Army officer (1831-1907) · United States · Artists · Died at 76
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Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt photographed by Leavitt Hunt, first American to photograph the Middle East, 1852, George Eastman House
The Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramid at Giza, calotype photograph by Leavitt Hunt, circa 1852, The Library of Congress
Artist Clyde du Vernet Hunt, son of Col. Leavitt Hunt, in his Paris studio, c. 1900
American architect Richard Morris Hunt, painted by John Singer Sargent. Richard Morris Hunt accompanied brother Leavitt on their trip down the Nile, 1853Family
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Leavitt Hunt was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the Middle East. He and a companion, Nathan Flint Baker, traveled to Egypt, the Holy Land, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece on a Grand Tour in 1851-52, making one of the earliest photographic records of the Arab and ancient worlds, including the Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, views along the Nile River, the ruins at Petra and the Parthenon in Greece.
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