Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography collection
Dates:
1788-1960,
Number:
2008.R.3
Creator/Collector:
Jacobson,
Ken
Extent:
147.7 Linear Feet
(103 boxes, 3 flatfile folders)
Abstract:
The Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist
Photography collection comprises over 4,500 photographic images of the Middle East and North
Africa. The majority of the images were created between 1850 and 1920 and record a period
when the "Orient," increasingly open and accessible to the West, exerted a compelling allure
on western viewers, travelers, scholars and entrepreneurs alike. Works by 164 different
photographers and studios present an overwhelmingly western vision of and response to Egypt,
the Maghreb and the Levant.
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Language:
Collection material is in French and English with some German
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 reference@getty.edu URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390
