Pascal Sebah: Portrait of a Girl

Photographer: Pascal SebahPascal Sébah (1823-1886) from Constantinople/Istanbul was a great Turkish photographer. He produced outstanding portraits, city landscapes, ethnographic photos, captures of historic monuments from Turkey and Middle East. He was the fourth child of the Syrian Catholic Hanna Sébah and the Armenian Lisa Hichaftadjan. He was father of the photographer Jean Sebah (1872-1947).

Addresses:

- 1857 10 Tom Tom Sokaği, ('El Chark Societé Photographic' El Chark = the Orient) (”prés la Poste d’Autriche”)

- 1858- ?: Grand Rue de Péra 232.(“Vis-á-vis de Palais de France”) His Tom Tom Sokaği studio remained open, and was used as a laboratory.

-1860: Grand Rue de Péra 439 (next to the Russian Embassy); he employed A. Laroche to run that studio.

- 1873: opened a branch in Cairo

Medals:

- 1859 Paris: Medal from the Societé Française de Photographie

- 1867 Naples: Medal from “La Scuola Dantesca Napolitana”

- 1870 Paris

- 1873: Ottoman exhibition in Vienna: Sébah presented the album, Les Costumes Populaires de la Turquie. He received a gold medal from the Austrians and the Medjidie Order from the Sultan Abdülaziz.

- 1877 medal in Philadelphia

- 1878 Paris: silver medal at the ‘Exposition Universelle‘ for photographs of Nubian desert tribes.

1883 suffered a stroke; his brother Cosmi, and later Jean Sébah (1872-1947), Pascal’s son, run the studio up to 1945.

Location: Constantinople/ Istanbul

Date: probably 1864

Subject: presumably sister of Ecaterina Obreja, born Xantopol

Format: CDV (number scratched on the negative 10153)

 

(By courtesy of Mrs. Lilian Theil)

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