Apr 10, 2019
Apr 10, 2019
Apr 10, 2019

Ceylonese Woman

Ceylonese Woman

c. 1880s

Scowen & Co.

(British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)

or Skeen & Co.

(British, active 1860–1920)

Albumen print

Image: 14.4 x 9.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Paper: 14.4 x 9.5 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2018.220

Location

Did you know?

Skeen & Co. and Scowen & Co., the two leading photographic establishments in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1880s, rarely signed their work.

Description

European photographers took portraits of the people of the colonized nations not for their subjects, but to sell them to governments as information, to tourists as aides memoires, and to “armchair tourists” as aids to the imagination.

See also
Department: 
Photography
Type of artwork: 
Photograph
Medium: 
Albumen print

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