Ethnic Portrait Photography with Natural Details

Striking photograph capturing the cultural essence of a young woman in an African landscape, wearing an elaborate headdress of natural bone and symbolic facial paintings in vibrant t...

Metraquilat Framed Photo by the Artist Gonzalo Botet, "To the Moon and Back". Measurements with frame: 122 x 180 x 5cm Diego Soares (in Portuguese) was a navigator who visited the current Antsiranama Bay in 1543. This was the reason for the city to bear its official name until 1975. In the year 1880, the bay was coveted by France, wich sought to use it as a coaling station for steamships. On september 17, 1885, Queen Ranavalona III signed a treaty whereaby she gave France a protectorat that included the bay and the surrounding territory. The administration of the colony became included within that of Madagascar in 1896. Diego Suárez was one of the points where the invasion of Madagascar by British forces began in 1942 during World War II, wresting from the Vichy French...

Photography made by Brassai in 1935 in Paris. Gelatin silver bromide. Stamped by Brassai.

Entitled "Portrait of Me at Twilight", this photograph is by American photographer John Patrick Dugdale (1960-). The self-portrait, a toned cyanot...