[Rear of the North Fort after its capture, showing the Retreat of the Chinese Army]

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[Rear of the North Fort after its capture, showing the Retreat of the Chinese Army]

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Felice Beato

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 21, 1860
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
English
Department
Photographs
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Bodies lie on a muddy battlefield. In the background is a fort with a tower in the center.

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