For now we will see things exactly as they are.

An article published in an art journal in 1858 said: “for now we will see things exactly as they are,” in reference to a series of new travel guides largely produced by artists, writers and photographers who traveled to Egypt to describe, research, record, and report their experiences and observations which were published as small guides. These guides largely began with the French colonial missions beginning in 1798 and proliferated in the years before the British colonization of Egypt in 1882.