Descrizione

Original b/w photograph by Pascal Sebah. (30x20 cm). In Ottoman script. Slightly chipped on corners and margins, a stain on the descriptive text area. Otherwise a good photo.  Original print photograph from 'Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873, ouvrage publie sous le patronage de la Commission Imp. de l'Exposition Universelle de 1873 a Vienne'. Photograph depicts three Ottoman civilians of Rhodes Island in their local costumes; one is an outdoor dress of Muslim women living in Rhodes, the second is a standard dress for Muslim men, and the last one is a home dress of Muslim women.  Pascal Sébah (1823-1886) was a photographer in Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Cairo, who produced a prolific number of images of Egypt, Turkey, and Greece to serve the tourist trade, and the founder of Sebah & Joaillier Photograph Studio. He established a valuable working relationship with Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey, taking photographs as part of the artist's preparation, and in which he experimented with light and shade. In turn, Hamdi Bey selected Sébah to illustrate his text on the popular costumes worn by Turkish and other ethnic groups, entitled Les Costumes Populaires de la Turquie en 1873: ouvrage publié sous le patronage de la Commission impériale ottomane pour l'Exposition universelle de Vienne and published in 1873.

Lingue: Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)