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[Turkish(?) man, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing a fez] / Kargopoulo. – Vintage Photo Print

[Turkish(?) man, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing a fez] / Kargopoulo., [between 1860 and 1900] — historic photograph
[Turkish(?) man, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing a fez] / Kargopoulo., [between 1860 and 1900]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Turkish(?) man, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing a fez] / Kargopoulo.

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A seated, half-length portrait of a man in a fez, facing the camera, this albumen print is captioned in Ottoman Turkish on the back, though the Library's staff devised the title because the sitter is unidentified. The fez was the standard headwear of the Ottoman state after the reforms of the 1820s and 1830s, so its presence reflects the dress codes of the period. The photographer's name, Kargopoulo, is part of the title, which points to a studio working in the Ottoman capital. Albumen prints like this one were the main medium of commercial studio portraiture from about 1860 to 1900, and the verso caption is a useful clue for researchers tracing the sitter.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1900]
Medium1 photographic print: albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1900.Albumen prints 1860-1900.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Caption in Ottoman Turkish on verso.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan946 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108782

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