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Bhong Yee's Funeral Procession
Creator
Felice BeatoPhotographer · 1832–1909
All works by this person →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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- 1887–1897
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ada6e4ea-10dd-431d-ad3b-e3e9a4ac92c6
Beginning in 1885 Beato used the gelatin dry-plate negative process, developed some fifteen years earlier. Instead of having to laboriously prepare his negatives, he could obtain ready-to-use plates. Their normal exposure time of fractions of a second allowed for almost "instant photography, " permitting Beato to capture people in motion, as in this procession.
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