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Unknown Artist — Untitled (British soldiers, man on palequin, and indgenous workers, recto)

Unknown Artist

Untitled (British soldiers, man on palequin, and indgenous workers, recto)

1870

Colonial-era photography reveals the complex social hierarchies of British India, documenting both military presence and indigenous labor through the formal constraints of mounted album photography.

Medium
albumen print mounted on an album page

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Unknown Artist, Untitled (British soldiers, man on palequin, and indgenous workers, recto), 1870

Colonial-era photography reveals the complex social hierarchies of British India, documenting both military presence and indigenous labor through the formal constraints of mounted album photography.

Medium
albumen print mounted on an album page
Year
1870
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Monochrome, Albumen Print, Anthropological, Documentary, 19th Century, Photograph, Historical, Colonial, British, Figurative

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago