W. Hanselman
Illustration — Famous portrait of Saad Zaghloul by Hanselman W. Hanselman was a photographer of Jewish origin established in Egypt. Working for Cairo's Anglo-Swiss Studio, he was renowned for his images of King Fuad I, Queen Farida and other Egyptian royalty. According to American photographer Barry Iverson (born in 1956), Hanselman was the great genius of court photography at the time and very much the favorite, particularly in the late 1920s.
W. Hanselman
W. Hanselman · This image comes from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina 's Memory of Modern Egypt Digital Archive. Click here to view its thumbnail. Its description page can be located in the archive by copying the Arabic · Public domain
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Illustration — Famous portrait of Saad Zaghloul by Hanselman W. Hanselman was a photographer of Jewish origin established in Egypt. Working for Cairo's Anglo-Swiss Studio, he was renowned for his images of King Fuad I, Queen Farida and other Egyptian royalty. According to American photographer Barry Iverson (born in 1956), Hanselman was the great genius of court photography at the time and very much the favorite, particularly in the late 1920s.
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One of his most recognizable works is a black-and-white photographic portrait of Egyptian nationalist leader and prime minister Saad Zaghloul.
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Photograph of Saad Zaghloul (1859–1927), former Prime Minister of Egypt. This is one of the most famous photographic portraits of Zaghloul. It was published at least as early as the mid-1920s since it was printed in Zaki Fahmi's book Safwat al-'Asr (1926). It appears in page 132 in the 1995 re-edition of the book. The caption below the photograph identifies its author as Hanselman (تصوير هنزلمان).
W. Hanselman · This image comes from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina 's Memory of Modern Egypt Digital Archive. Click here to view its thumbnail. Its description page can be located in the archive by copying the Arabic
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