Sikh Temple at Amritsir

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Sikh Temple at Amritsir

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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: negative 1859; print 1869
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: English
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Interior view of a doorway with a striped awning at Sri Harmandir Sahib or the Golden Temple. The wall surrounding the door is decorated with marble mosaic inlays. The top half of the wall has three windows side by side, each with a transom featuring a different decoration in relief. The wall surrounding the windows features columns, flowers, and patterns in relief. A man leans against the doorjamb, and several people are partially visible inside the doorway.

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