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J. Pascal Sébah

Posed Soldiers Thrusting Canon Loading-Pole Towards the Camera, late 1800s

Description

Maker

  • J. Pascal Sébah, fl. 1860-1880, Turkish

Title

Posed Soldiers Thrusting Canon Loading-Pole Towards the Camera

Year

late 1800s

Medium

albumen print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • albumen print

Dimensions

Image/sheet: 19.4 x 25.7 cm (7 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Museum Collection

Object Number

71.086.10

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collective Recollection

July 27, 2018 - January 20, 2019

In the 1800s, stereotypical images of exoticized peoples were commonly created by both foreign and domestic photography studios for consumption by Western tourist audiences.

After purchasing the negatives of two European photographers, the Japanese photographer Kimbei printed their images of sumo wrestlers and geisha as well as his own. This hybrid cultural narrative makes it impossible to determine whether his photographs are self-representation or “othering” by an artist from a different culture. Jean Pascal Sébah’s photograph of British soldiers in Egypt is similarly complicated. Sébah, a Turkish photographer of Syrian Armenian descent, sold individual portraits, “types,” and local scenes to both Ottoman and European customers.

German photographer August Sander turned a typological lens on his own country by photographing “people of the 20th century.” His nearly 600 portraits placed his subjects firmly within a larger context by identifying them only by occupation and economic class. The Nazis terminated his project because it contradicted their racial categorizations.

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J. Pascal Sébah

An Album of Photographs of Scenes and People Taken in Egypt, 1800s

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