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Photographer Felice Beato

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  Born 1825, Died probably 1908
Photographer, British

Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine.

He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma.

 

 Beato's photographic career was also long affiliated with images of war. He photographed the Opium War in China in 1860 and the Sudanese colonial wars in 1885.

While in partnership with his brother-in-law James Robertson in the 1850s, Beato documented the Indian Mutiny and its aftermath. Their photographs are believed to be the first to show human corpses on a battlefield. Beato and Robertson were also among the earliest photographers to work in the Holy Land.

  Felice Beato is present in the collection of the following museums (selection):

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts

Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts


Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi, Roma


IAC - Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne

British Museum, London

Dahesh Museum of Art, New York

NGV National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne