- Porter did not normally accept jobs illustrating other authors’
books. But in spring and autumn of 1973, he made two trips to Egypt
to shoot photographs for historian Kenneth W. Kitchen’s study
of Pharaoh Ramesses II. While Porter satisfied Kitchen’s list
of photographic subjects, he was free to add to that list, and he
did.
- He investigated the ranges of yellows and browns of the ancient
ruins and examined the repeating shapes and the light and shadows
on the stone.
- Porter's photographs were finally published in 1990 in Monuments
of Egypt.
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