Ceylonese Woman
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 14.4 × 9.5 cm · paper: 14.4 × 9.5 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
Accession Number
2018.220
Tags
male
About this artwork
European photographers took portraits of the people of the colonized nations not for their subjects, but to sell them to governments as information, to tourists as aides memoires, and to “armchair tourists” as aids to the imagination.