Sébah & Joaillier Albumen Print
Title: 259. Cimetiere turc a Scutari
Date: 1890s
Photographer: Jean Pascal Sébah (1872–1947)
Studio: Sébah & Joaillier Photography Studio
Condition: center crease (examine photo closely to determine condition)
Size: 7 5/8 in. x 10 1/2 in.
This photograph is of the Karacaahmet Cemetery, a 700-year-old historic cemetery, located in Üsküdar on the Asian side selling of Istanbul. It is the oldest in Istanbul and the largest burial ground in Turkey. The cemetery was named after a warrior companion of Orhan I, the second Ottoman sultan and is believed to have been founded in the mid-14th century. It is estimated that over a million people are interred in the non-profit cemetery.
Jean Pascal Sébah was the son of Pascal Sébah who had operated a photographic studio in Cairo from the mid-1850s and another in Constantinople from the early 1870s. The Sébah studio earned a reputation for the foremost Orientalist photography in the region. In 1888 Pollicarpe Joiallier became a partner and the company was renamed Sebah & Joaillier. The firm developed a reputation as the leading representative of Orientalist photography and in 1889 was appointed the Photographers by Appointment to the Prussian Court.
Product code: Sébah & selling Joaillier Albumen Print c.1890