Jean Pascal Sébah
Jean Pascal Sébah (1872–1947), son of photographer Pascal Sebah, continued the family's photographic legacy after his father's death in 1886, joining the business in 1888. He photographed scenes and people in Anatolia and Egypt including Nubians. He partnered with photographer Policarpe Joaillier.[1]
In 1893, Sultan Abdulhamid II sponsored fifty-one photographic albums representing the span of the Ottoman Empire with two of the volumes produced by Sebah & Joaillier. U.S. President Grover Cleveland was one of the recipients of the photo collection and it is now in the Library of Congress.[1]
The "Foto Sabah" studio in Beyoğlu, Constantinople was the most prestigious photography studio in the city for many decades during the 19th and 20th centuries. The photographs depicted sites such as the Hagia Sofia, the Blue Mosque, the Galata Tower.
Jean died on 6 June 1947, at the age of 75.
Gallery
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Photography in Ottoman Istanbul by Maggie Kurkoski '12 Smith College Museum of Art
