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[The Hosainabad Emambara and Tomb of Mahomed Ali Khan, Lucknow]
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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- 1858
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- eee76f7c-1f11-4d61-bf48-0f2bed521862
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This photograph captures the Hosainabad Imambara in Lucknow just months after the violent siege of 1857, frozen in an uneasy calm. Felice Beato's 1858 albumen silver print looks across a drained ornamental pool, lined with ceramic pots, toward the monument's ribbed central dome and dense arcade of cusped arches, with two small figures standing on the ornamental bridge ahead. Beato was among the first photographers to document the consequences of war on location, and this image helped shape how the British public visualized India in the aftermath of the uprising.
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Architectural view with drained pool and figures in the foreground
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