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Gelatin silver print
cm 23 x 17 | 9 x 6.7 in.
When one is confronted with photographs from the late 19th century to the 1920s, one gets the distinct feeling that they can tell us stories that are distant in time, but full of wonderful suggestions. Let us take the story of the studio created in 1904 by the Bohemian Rudolf Franz Lehnert and the German Ernst Heinrich Landrock: the two met and decided to found the firm Lehnert & Landrock by opening the studio in Avenue de France in Tunis, which the former considered to be the starting point for expeditions to various North African countries or from which he returned with beautiful images of a distinct and then much sought-after Orientalist taste that the latter printed, promoted and sold to Western tourists. The outbreak of the Great War led to the closure of the company and the arrest of the two owners, who were later rehabilitated in the 1920s when they decided to move the business to Cairo.
cm 23 x 17 | 9 x 6.7 in.
Photographers's credit stamp on the image from the negative
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When one is confronted with photographs from the late 19th century to the 1920s, one gets the distinct feeling that they can tell us stories that are distant in time, but full of wonderful suggestions. Let us take the story of the studio created in 1904 by the Bohemian Rudolf Franz Lehnert and the German Ernst Heinrich Landrock: the two met and decided to found the firm Lehnert & Landrock by opening the studio in Avenue de France in Tunis, which the former considered to be the starting point for expeditions to various North African countries or from which he returned with beautiful images of a distinct and then much sought-after Orientalist taste that the latter printed, promoted and sold to Western tourists. The outbreak of the Great War led to the closure of the company and the arrest of the two owners, who were later rehabilitated in the 1920s when they decided to move the business to Cairo.
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