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Gabriel Lekegian
Armenian photographer in Ottoman Egypt (1853–1920) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gabriel Lekegian (1853 – c. 1920), also known as G. Lékégian, was an Armenian painter and photographer, active in Constantinople and Cairo from the 1880s to the 1920s. Little is known about his life, but he left an important body of work under the name of his studio ‘Photographie Artistique G. Lekegian & Cie’. With a large number of now historical photographs of Ottoman Egypt, he documented the country at the turn of the 19th century. Among other collections, his photographs are held in the New York Public Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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![]() Photographers G. Lekegian (sitting on the left) and J. Farah, Cairo, with assistants | |
Born | 1853 (1853) |
Died | 1920 (aged 66–67) |
Nationality | Armenian |
Occupation(s) | photographer, painter |
Years active | 1880-1920 |
Known for | photography of Ottoman Egypt |
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