Cleveland Museum of Art

Angle of Taku Fort at which the French entered

Felice A. BeatoLinkedCulture matchlcp-ebfab94d4ba0

Date

1860

Medium

albumen print from collodion negative

Culture

England, 19th century

Department

Photography

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Object ID

452648

Beato’s photographs of the Second Opium War are believed to be the first that captured a military campaign in progress. Within that project, an extended sequence of photographs of the Taku Forts—to which this image belongs—exemplify the idea of creating a narrative recreation of the battle, a process that would later be followed by American photographers documenting the Civil War. Felice Beato was one of the pioneers of war photography.

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