Abstract
Abstract Ernest de Caranza came from Thiais, a small town 12 km south of Paris. His official position during his stay in the Ottoman capital is not clear, but it is quite possible that he was involved in technical missions because he was an industrial engineer by profession. Before 1855 he took photographs in various parts of the Ottoman Empire, at Mount Athos (Greece), Kustendje (Romania), Varna (Bulgaria), the Dardanelles, and Constantinople.1 According to the surviving prints that are signed and dated, we know that he took photographs of Constantinople in two series, first in 1852 and then in the winter of 1854. After 1855 Caranza became a permanent resident of Paris and we know that he was employed in a factory where gas for lighting was produced from wood by means of dry distillation.2
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