[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the province of Sivas, Ottoman Empire]
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(1): Turkish woman of Osmandjik (Osmancik); (2): Muslim artisan of Amasia (Amasya); and (3): married Christian woman of Tokat.
French caption from book: Sivas: Figure 1: Femme Turque d'Osmandjik; Figure 2: Artisan Musulman d'Amasia; and Figure 3: Dame Chrétienne de Tokat.
Caption also in Ottoman Turkish.
Part III, plate XV.
Illus. in: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873 / Hamdy bey ... et Marie de Launay ... phototypie de Sébah. Part III, plate XV (opposite p. 191).
Pascal Sebah was a pioneering photographer in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the late 19th century. He was born in Istanbul to an Armenian family and began his career as a photographer in the early 1850s. Sebah quickly gained recognition for his work, which included portraits, landscapes and architectural photographs. He became particularly famous for his images of Ottoman architecture, which were widely distributed throughout Europe and helped shape Western perceptions of the Ottoman Empire. Sebah's studio, which he founded in 1857, became one of the most important photographic studios in Constantinople, attracting clients from all over the Ottoman Empire. Today, Sebah's photographs are highly prized by collectors and considered important historical documents of Ottoman society and culture.
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