Jeez, you know, I don’t want to be snide, but what’s being photographed here? Is it the umbrella? Is it so her children and grandchildren can remember how blindingly white her mandyli always was? How gracefully the kimono-like folds of her doulama always fell? The embroidered edges of her salwaria against her elegant pasoumakia?
Why is she, herself, even in the picture?
Vah, but Ayşe Teyze‘s eyes always gliterred when she smiled… Vah va…
But wait… Is that Ayşe Teyze?………
Portrait of a Woman, Istanbul, 1870s Bir İstanbul Kadını, 1870’ler
Ottoman Imperial Archives
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