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Felice Beato

Exterior of the North Fort showing the English entrance August 21st 1860, Albumen silver print, 22.9 x 27.9 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
   Interior of the Angle of North Fort Immediately after Its Capture, 1860, Albumen silver print, 25.6 x 29.9 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Interior of the Pehtang Fort Showing the Magazine and Wooden Gun, 1860, Albumen silver print, 38.5 x 45 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
   Interior of the English Entrance to North Fort on 21st August, 1860, Albumen silver print, 23.7 x 30.3 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Treasury Street, Canton, 1860, Albumen silver print, 30.5 x 25 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
View of the Imperial Summer Palace, Yuen-Ming-Yuen, after the Burning, Taken from the Lake, Peking, 1860, Albumen silver print, 23.2 x 29.8 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Lieutenant General Sir Hope Grant, 1860, Albumen silver print, 16.7 x 13 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
    Imperial Winter Palace, Pekin, October 29, 1860, Albumen silver print, 22.5 x 29.1 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Portrait of Prince Kung, Brother of the Emperor of China, Who Signed the Treaty, 1860, Albumen silver print, 16.6 x 13 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
[Shops and Street, Chinese City of Peking], 1860 Albumen silver print, 25.6 x 27.6 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
[View of the Summer Palace. Yuan Ming Yuan Pagoda. Before the Burning, Pekin, October 18, 1860], Albumen silver print, 23 x 27.9 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
   [Wall and Pagoda of Tongchow --- Canal (Grand) Between the Priho and Peking], 1860, 24.9 x 29.5 cm. Albumen silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Italian-British Felice Beato (1832-1909) was amongst the earliest photographers to dedicate his career to photographing Asia and the Near East. His travels led him to numerous countries around the world, for instance India, Greece, Palestine, Korea, Japan, and China. If Chinese exotic sceneries and portraits were popular subject matter, the chronicling of the successive wars that occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century became also important topic in the medium of photography. Beato sailed to China on February 1860 with Hope Grant, the British commander in the Second Opium War (1856-1860). A pioneer war photographer, Beato recorded the aftermaths of the battles, often with dead still in place. Nevertheless his oeuvre remained diverse, encompassing various genres such as topographical and architectural views, panoramas, portraits, and costume studies. 

More information:
• Conner, Lois. “Felice Beato – A photographer on the Eastern Road.” China Heritage Quarterly No. 26 June (2011)
• Images: J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Australia, Arago

 

tags: War photography, Landscape photography, Portrait photography, Architectural photography
categories: Pre-Mao period
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