Photo Exhibition: Through Meinecke's Lens: The Cairenes and Cairo in the 1970s
The 20th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society will include a photo exhibition in partnership with the Berlin Museum for Islamic Art.
This photo exhibition highlights the daily life of Cairenes in Historic Cairo during the 1970s, showcasing one of the world's richest cities filled with Islamic monuments. The forty images are drawn from the Meinecke archive at the Musuem für Islamische Kunst in Berlin, a collection created by the art historian Michael Meinecke (1941-1995) and his wife, the art historian Viktoria Meinecke-Berg (1941-1995).
Curated by:
Eman Shokry Hesham (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck Institute)
Issam Hajjar (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)