Felice Beato

Another mysterious travel photographer (Corfiot, ca. 1830-ca. 1907). I posted some of his samurai photographs last month. Turns out he was the first to extensively photograph East Asia in the 1860s.

"The Ainos are a people inhabiting the Northern island of Yesso...Their origin is lost in a wild and fabulous tradition."

"Our chief artist"

"Courier or postman"

"Out for a walk"

via Wikimedia Commons, and online exhibit The World in a Frame: Photographs from the Great Age of Exploration, 1865-1915, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.