Busan. Old Korean man about town

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Accession Nr.: F.2004.683.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1908
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: hand-coloured glass slide
Dimensions: height: 8 cm
width: 8 cm
Dezső Bozóky hand-coloured glass diapositive. Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. An elderly gentleman, in the traditional wear of Korean men: a light summer coat, pants tied at the ankle, and a short shirt. He wears a horsehair hat and spectacles, and carries a European umbrella. He is followed, half hidden by him, by a porter. Further back, Japanese men can be seen, and a porter bending under the weight of his curiously shaped load.