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The Gibsons of Scilly: The Family Who Captured Cornwall’s Past in Glass and Silver
Step back into 19th-century Cornwall through the haunting photographs of the Gibson family. From shipwrecks to shopfronts, their images preserve a world shaped by the sea.
Portraits of People in Kerala, India Taken by Egon von Eickstedt in the 1920s
German anthropologist Egon von Eickstedt took thousands of portraits in Kerala during the 1920s. His photographs of Adivasi and Dalit communities document lives and traditions, but also reflect the colonial and racial science of their time.
E. J. Bellocq – The Secret Photographer of Storyville’s Decadence
In early 1900s New Orleans, E. J. Bellocq photographed Storyville’s madams and prostitutes – not as clichés, but as women in control of their world. His images reveal wealth, intimacy, and the strange beauty of a district built on vice.
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