Dreaming Egypt – Early Photographs by Béchard and Sébah

^{Probably Pascal Sebah. No title. Egypt, 1880s. Albumen print, 25 x 31 cm.}

The exhibition reveals how the photographers Henri Béchard and Pascal Sébah, who worked in Cairo around 1880, assembled and staged an Egyptian dream world for a Western audience, image by image.

_{(Photo courtesy of Museum Rietberg Zurich.)}