Yesterday as Today
Photograph
Yesterday as Today
Threatened Temples of the Nile
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/2 × 9 9/16 in. (16.5 × 24.3 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0365
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Niles Temples) 9/62 23) YESTERDAY AS TODAY: frescoes in a tomb at \ Luxor show the slaves of the Phraohs hauling heavy \ burdens on their backs. Laborers on the Aswan Dam use \ much the same methods (picture 22). However, heavy \ machinery is also employed. \ Credit: René Burri © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
