Batavian Dancing Girl. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Full-length studio group portrait of a woman in costume, with musicians seated around her. This particular group played wayang topeng, one of the traditional varieties of Javanese theatre, in which the players performed roles while wearing topeng or masks made out of wood. Such groups usually d...
Numbered 614 in the negative. Studio portrait of two geishas, one kneeling playing a stringed instrument, the other dancing, with a fan held aloft in her right hand. The two are posed in front of backdrop painted with a traditional scene.
Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 483 in the negative. Studio portrait of a Japanese woman, seated with a stringed instrument (a kind of zither) resting on the floor in front of her.
'Jellallabad. Scene in the City with musicians.' Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
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View of a group of musicians seated under some trees. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1878. There is a marking 'Burke 77', lower right of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER & BURKE / ART...
At a music school on Kabul, boys are taught the traditional Afghan instrument the rubab. Difficult to play, it is a skill which nearly became extinct due to the Taliban prohibition on secular music. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
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View of five musicians holding a musical instrument under some trees posed on carpets. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromogen...