Burma/Myanmar: Studio portrait of a young Burman with a cheroot. Photograph by Philip Adolphe Klier (1845 - 27 March 1911), probably Rangoon/Yangon, 1895. Philip Adolphe Klier was a German photographer best known for his photographs of colonial Burma / Myanmar. By 1871 he was a professional photographer in Moulmein, Burma. His business included work as an optician, watchmaker and jeweller as well as running the firm known as Murken & Klier. Around 1880 Klier moved to Rangoon, Burma‘s largest city and the centre of Indo-British power.
Philip Adolphe Klier was a German photographer best known for his photographs of colonial Burma / Myanmar. By 1871 he was a professional photographer in Moulmein, Burma. His business included work as an optician, watchmaker, and jeweller as well running the firm known as Murken & Klier. Around 1880 Klier moved to Rangoon, Burma‘s largest city. In the wake of the conquest of the Irrawaddy Delta by the British in 1852, Rangoon had become the center of Indo-British power. Klier worked independently until 1885 when he went into partnership with J. Jackson. By 1890 the partnership was dissolved and Klier became an independent again.
Size: 3302px × 5250px
Photo credit: © Pictures From History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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