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| Dimitrios Constantin Albumen Silver Print - Parthenon ca. 1860 Rijksmuseum |
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| Dimitrios Constantin Caryatid Porch, Erechtheion ca. 1860 Rijksmuseum |
When Dimitrios Constantin opened a commercial photo studio in Athens in 1858 he became the second professional photographer established in Greece. Constantin's large-format albumen silver prints of the Acropolis were made from glass-plate negatives and sold as tourist souvenirs to the relatively small numbers of mid-19th century culture-pilgrims. In the picture of the Erechtheion above, crude stone restorations are starkly visible, a late and feeble attempt by the authorities to give travelers their money's worth (after far too many centuries of indifference, damage, and exploitation). The frieze fragments below were among those left behind by Lord Elgin when he providentially transported about half the surviving Parthenon sculptures to London some fifty years before these pictures were taken.
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| Dimitrios Constantin Parthenon Frieze Fragment 1865 Getty |
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| Dimitrio Constantin Parthenon Frieze Fragment 1865 Getty |
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| Dimitrios Constantin Wingless Victory from Athena Nike Parapet 1865 Getty |
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| Dimitrios Constantin Parthenon Frieze Fragment 1865 Getty |
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| Dimitrios Constantin Parthenon Frieze Fragment 1865 Getty |
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| Dimitrios Constantin Erechtheion, Eastern Facade 1865 Getty |
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| Dimitrios Constantin Parthenon, Western Facade 1865 Getty |
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| Dimitrios Constantin Propylea (from the west) 1865 Getty |