Street in Jemulpo

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

travelphoto

Archive

Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.20.2.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1908
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting:
Street in Jemulpo.
Materials/Techniques: gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
Dimensions: height: 8.2 cm
width: 13.5 cm
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. An ascending street among the low houses of the Korean district. Women wrapped in their veils and a half-naked boy are approaching, a girl with a ponytail is walking away from the camera. On the left, a man in a large straw hat is watching the photographer in action, next to him, on the porch, another man is sitting on some sort of a case.