Photography

Lutterodt photographers

The Lutterodt photographers, also known as Lutterodt family and Lutterodt and Son Studio, were a West African family of European and Ghanaian ancestry in the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) during the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Considered pioneers of West African photography, their work is notable for its artistic quality and for documenting the social and cultural life of the region during that period. Based on existing photographs and art historical research, the Lutterodt photographers have been mentioned as representatives of the few early African photographers, whose names and work are known. Prints of their historical photographs have been collected as examples of 19th-century African photography by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of African Art, the New York Public Library as well as by collections in Europe.

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• ▸Alain Resnais
• ▸Kerala backwaters
• ▸Farm Security Administration

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