Lehnert & Landrock: sable sus sable lumière sur lumière.

This article is taken from the book ""Lehnert & Landrock -
l'Orient d'un photographe'' (1987, Lausanne, éditions Favre). It
includes biographical information, a description of the the
division of labour between Rudolph Lehnert (the photographer)
and Ernst Landrock (the lab technician and business manager) and
a study of their photographic work in Tunis since 1904. The
author discusses the photographs and cites Malek Alloula's ""Le
Harem colonial'' (Paris, 1979) which analysed hundreds of
pictures of women from the Orient, taken between 1900-1920,
concluding, ""All these photographs are nothing more then forms
of esthetical justification of the colonial violence''. But even
Alloula admits dat Lehnerts photographs are exceptions. The
author then discusses Lehnert's pictures with reference to
Edward Saïd's book ""Orientalisme'' (1982, Paris). The major
themes of the photographs of Lehnert & Landrock are: the women,
the garden (the oasis), the desert. (French)


Citaten:
Alloula, M.: Le Harem Colonial (1979)
Saïd, E.: Orientalisme (1982)