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In 1890 Atget began photographing professionally and by 1897, he had begun his documentation of medieval Paris. Beato" which, in fact, is the work of his brother, Antoine. His sister, Maria Matilde, was married to James Robertson, the Scottish photographer and Beato's one-time partner. Beato is also said to have sold a studio in Yokohama, Japan, to Baron Stillfried in 1877. Year of death provided by Canadian Centre for Architecture. |
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Requests for trade were denied, violence flared, and all the Americans were killed and their ship burned. The five American ships were commanded by the Civil War veteran Admiral Rodgers, who had previous Far Eastern experience. In the interests of Korean photographic history, it is most fortunate that the Americans decided to engage Felice Beato as official photographer to the expedition. Woollett, he took some stunning pictures of the fighting that erupted after the failure of the American diplomatic efforts. Unless and until subsequent research proves otherwise, the honour of being the first photographer of Korea must be given to Felice Beato. |