Interior of South Taku Fort, Showing the Place of Landing (84.XM.473.34)

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Interior of South Taku Fort, Showing the Place of Landing (84.XM.473.34)

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Photographer · 1832–1909

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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

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Date: August 22 or later, 1860
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: English
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Beato made this image not only to celebrate the capture of South Taku Fort, but also to commemorate an earlier episode in the Second Opium War. On June 25, 1859, 89 British sailors were killed and another 252 wounded in the mudflats below the fort. The military atlas includes detailed studies of the Chinese defense.

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