Ceylonese Woman, c. 1880s. Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876-1895), or Skeen & Co. (British, active 1860-1920). Albumen print; image: x cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.); paper: x cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.). 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.

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Size: 2298px × 3400px
Photo credit: © CMA/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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