No, not at all. Most of the photography of this sort is staged in similar ways. Colonizers got really excited about taking pictures in which they could make the natives look more like the savages that they wanted them to be, making them wear costumes such as grass skirts, spears, bones, or nothing at all. There was also a pornography law in Victorian Britain stating that images on postcards could not show the breasts of white women, which led to a bit of an explosion in sociology as pornography.
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Date: 2007-02-23 04:24 pm (UTC)