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Samuel Bourne — Lepcha Woman (number 1908)
Samuel Bourne

Lepcha Woman (number 1908)

1863

Beyond mere documentation, Bourne's portrait reveals his ethnographic interests while raising questions about colonial photography's relationship to its indigenous subjects.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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Samuel Bourne, Lepcha Woman (number 1908), 1863

Beyond mere documentation, Bourne's portrait reveals his ethnographic interests while raising questions about colonial photography's relationship to its indigenous subjects.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Year
1863
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Albumen Print, Documentary, Photograph, Historical, Portrait, British, Ethnographic, Woman

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago