Amerapoora: Corner of Mygabhoodee-tee Kyoung
Tripe took four photographs of this wooden monastery (kyoung) south of Amerapoora. He noted that the building "attracted much attention from the richness of its carving and the beauty of its situation," surrounded by lush foliage.
Credit: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, and Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2012
September 1-October 21, 1855
Albumen silver print from waxed paper negative
10.8 x 13.6in
2012.323.14
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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