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Costumed Arab Woman - Profile View - Standing Pose, late 1800s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Title

Costumed Arab Woman - Profile View - Standing Pose

Year

late 1800s

Medium

Albumen print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • albumen print

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Museum Collection

Object Number

71.086.28

About

Pascal Sébah was a photographer catering to tourist markets during the last several decades of the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922). Pascal was a Catholic, the son of a Syrian father and an Armenian mother. He and his son, Jean Pascal, photographed extensively throughout the empire’s multinational borders, especially in Cairo and their home in Constantinople.

Little is known about the history of the album these images are from, but it also includes photos by European photographers, ranging from ancient Egyptian architecture to staged portraits of Indigenous people posing with objects from their proposed professions. By marketing these images, sometimes with French captions, the Sébahs profited off orientalist stereotypes of this expansive region. The album was probably assembled for personal use by a tourist or collector.

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Costumed Arab Woman - Profile View - Standing Pose with the accession number of 71.086.28. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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