[Japanese country road with travelers]

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[Japanese country road with travelers]

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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: 1863–1868
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: English
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View down a dirt road surrounded by tall trees on both sides. Two men rest in the road and a third man sits on a tree stump on the right side of the image. Each of the men has two baskets attached to a yoke with string, and one of the men stands in the road with the yoke resting on his shoulders.

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