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Scowen & Co. — Ceylonese Woman

Scowen & Co.

Ceylonese Woman

1880

Ethnographic portraiture reflects Victorian-era colonial documentation practices, using photography's perceived objectivity to catalog cultural difference.

Medium
albumen print

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Scowen & Co., Ceylonese Woman, 1880

Ethnographic portraiture reflects Victorian-era colonial documentation practices, using photography's perceived objectivity to catalog cultural difference.

Medium
albumen print
Year
1880
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Albumen Print, Documentary, Photograph, Colonial, Portrait, British, Ethnographic, Woman, Sepia Tones

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