Main entry:

Lacoste, Anne.

Title & Author:

Felice Beato : a photographer on the Eastern road / Anne Lacoste ; with an essay by Fred Ritchin.

Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, ©2010.

Description:

vii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 28 x 29 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from December 7, 2010 to April 4, 2011"--Title page verso.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from December 7, 2010 to April 4, 2011."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Felice Beato : a photographer on the Eastern road / Anne Lacosta -- Felice Beato and the photography of war -- Facsimiles of the Henry Hering Catalogue.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In recent years Felice Beato (1832-1909) has come to be recognized as one of the major photographers of the nineteenth century, yet until now there has been no general survey of his singular life and work. Born in Venice, Italy, Beato came of age in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. As a young apprentice in 1856, he photographed the sites of the Crimean War, thereby launching a long and remarkably adventurous career. Over the next half century he would follow in the wake of the British Empire: Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; India, where he photographed the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny; and China, where he chronicled the Second Opium War. He spent some thirty years in Japan and Burma, where he was among the first commercial photographers at the time that these countries were starting to open to the West. The text includes an engaging narrative of his life and entrepreneurial career and a thought-provoking essay on Beato and the photography of war. There is a generous selection of his photographs, including panoramas and hand-colored Japanese studies, along with captivating period ephemera, lithographs based on his work, and humorous caricatures of the artist.

Resources:
Getty Publications Virtual Library

ISBN:

9781606060353 (hardcover)
160606035X (hardcover)

Subject:

Beato, Felice, approximately 1825- Exhibitions.
Beato, Felice, 1825-1907.
Beato, Felice, 1832-1909.
Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
Photographers Italy Biography Exhibitions.
Photographers Great Britain Biography Exhibitions.
Documentary photography Asia History 19th century Exhibitions.
Travel photography Asia History 19th century Exhibitions.
Photographes Italie Biographies Expositions.
Photographes Grande-Bretagne Biographies Expositions.
Photographie documentaire Asie Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Photographie de voyage Asie Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Documentary photography.
Photographers.
Travel photography.
Fotografie
Fotograf
Kriegsberichterstattung
Dokumentarfotografie
Fotografer Storbritannien 1800-talet utställningar.
Fotografer Italien 1800-talet utställningar.
Asia Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Asie Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Asia.
Great Britain.
Italy.
Asien

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Beato, Felice, 1832-1909.
J. Paul Getty Museum.

Photographer on the Eastern road

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270598
Call No.: BIB 203399
Status: Available