Korean singers

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

groupportrait

Archive

Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.28.5.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
ca. 1900
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting:
Korean singers.
Materials/Techniques: gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
Dimensions: height: 9.5 cm
width: 14.2 cm
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Unknown photographer. Photograph purchased by Dezső Bozóky. Ten professional singers lined up in the company of Japanese and Western guests, at an unidentified function. The faces of three Korean men in the background were retouched out. Curious Korean teenagers stand by the impromptu tent.