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Ottoman Empire
Ethnic Groups of the Ottoman Empire

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Photographers: Félix Bonfils (1821-1885), Tancrède Dumas (1830-1905), and others. Ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire. 1870s. 8 albumen prints, mounted to board. Each between ca. 13,8 x 10 cm and 22 x 16,4 cm or reverse (mounts ca. 40,5 x 30,5 cm or reverse). Most numbered and titled in the negative along the lower edge.

This group of photographs presents a series of ethnographic studio portraits depicting men and women from across the late Ottoman empire, including western Anatolia, Greater Syria, and Palestine. Shown in traditional dress, the sitters range from Zeybek fighters and Bedouin figures to Levantine villagers and veiled women, with costumes, weapons, and domestic attributes carefully staged to convey regional identity.