Cleveland Museum of Art

Angle of Taku Fort at which the French entered

Felice A. Beato

Date: 1860
Medium: albumen print from collodion negative
Culture: England, 19th century
Department: Photography
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

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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