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Mauresques 1880-1930, portraits de femmes algériennes dans les collections de l'agence Roger-Viollet

Mauresques, portraits of Algerian women in the collections of Roger-Viollet agency
From march 6 to april 25 2003
Photography
Among the hundreds of portraits of oriental women in the Roger-Viollet collection, thirty have been chosen for this event.The orientalism and exoticism reveal more folklore than reality in these portraits of which the aim was to make Western man dream.

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Algerian woman of the Tlemcen country, ca 1880-1890, © Roger-Viollet