Name of Object:

Portrait Album – Ottoman State Officers

Location:

Istanbul, Turkey

Holding Institution:

Istanbul University, Nadir Eserler Kütüphanesi (Rare Books Library)

 About Ministry of Culture and Tourism (General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums), Istanbul

Date of Object:

Late 19th century – beginning of the 20th century

Author:

Nikolas Andriomenos  (1851-1929)

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Photograph

Provenance:

Istanbul

Description:

With the political developments of the 19th century, interest in the East increased steadily in the western world. Everything belonging to the East was the centre of interest for western observers. As a result, close to 160 artists visited Istanbul in the 19th century. Born in Costantinople in 1851, Nicolas Andriomenos was an Ottoman Greek who learned photography in the 1870s from Cosmi Abdullah. At that time, Cosmi operated a studio of his own in Beyazıt, but turned the business over to Andriomenos in late 1879, after which its new proprietor soon made it into one of the city's most prestigious portrait studios.

Citation of this web page:

"Portrait Album – Ottoman State Officers" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tr;136;en

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