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Client | © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum |
Photographer | A.W.A. Platé & Co, Shakuntala-Schauspieler, um 1900, Albuminabzug |
One of the world's most comprehensive and significant collections of portrait photography from India is on exhibit and available as an exhibition catalogue for the first time.
The collection was originally thought to be lost during World War II, only gradually returning to Berlin's National Museums in the 1990s.
Around 250 photographs from the second half of the nineteenth century offer a comprehensive overview of portrait photography...