Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Anthropology |
| 2 | Measuring humanity and anthropometry |
| 3 | Introduction to human zoos |
| 4 | Anthropological documentation of tasks |
| 5 | Introduction to material culture |
| 6 | Alphonse Bertillon: Identification Anthropometrique, Instructions Signaletiques (1893) |
| Daguerreotypes and the conception of race |
| 7 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic |
| 8 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians |
| 9 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Chinese |
| 10 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Native Americans |
| 11 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Spanish |
| Peoples of the world |
| 12 | Joseph T. Zealy: African American slaves |
| 13 | Lorenzo G. Chase: Anthropological studies |
| 14 | Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d'Afrique (1856) |
| 15 | Lallemand and Hart: Galerie Universelle des Peuples - Alsace (1865) |
| 16 | Philippe Potteau: Ethnographic portraits |
| 17 | J. Monstein: Russian types |
| 18 | William Carrick: Russian occupationals |
| 19 | Paul-Émile Miot: Mik'maq (Micmac) |
| 20 | William Johnson & William Henderson: The Oriental races and tribes, residents and visitors of Bombay (published 1863-1866) |
| 21 | John Thomson: China, cartes de visite (ca 1870) |
| 22 | J. Forbes Watson & John William Kaye (eds.): The People of India (1868-1872) |
| 23 | Willoughby Wallace Hooper: India: Portraits |
| 24 | Albert Frisch: The Amazon (1867-1871) |
| 25 | Marc Ferrez: Brazilian Indians |
| 26 | Lotten von Düben: Anthropological studies of Lapland (1868) |
| 27 | Paolo Mantegazza & Stephen Sommier: Studii antropologici sui Lapponi (1880) |
| 28 | Prince Roland Bonaparte's ethnographic expedition to Lapland (1884) |
| 29 | Prince Roland Napoléon Bonaparte: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte, Peaux Rouges (before 1884) |
| 30 | William E. Marshall: Travels amongst the todas or the study of a primitive tribe in South India, their history, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polyandry, language; with outlines of the Tuda grammar (1873) |
| 31 | Alexander Gardner: Ogallalla Sioux (May, 1872) |
| 32 | Gustav Fritsch: Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika's: ethnographisch und anatomisch beschrieben (1872) |
| 33 | C. Nieuwenhuis: Sumatra and other regions of Indonesia |
| 34 | Daniel David Veth: Midden-Sumatra Photographie-Album (1877-1879) |
| 35 | V.S. Adrianov: Mongolian expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1879-1880) |
| 36 | William Henry Jackson: Portraits of American Indians (1876) |
| 37 | Elias A. Bonine: Native Americans |
| 38 | Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) |
| 39 | Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian |
| 40 | Edward S. Curtis: Orotones |
| 41 | William Saunders: Studio studies of the occupations of the Chinese |
| 42 | Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China |
| 43 | Charles Kroehle: Campa-Indians, Rio Chuchuras, East Peru (1880s) |
| 44 | Charles-Albert Arnoux Bertall: Ethnological studies |
| 45 | Allan Hughan: Indigenous peoples of New Caledonia |
| 46 | Maurice Vidal Portman: Andamanese |
| 47 | Carl Lumholtz: Mexico and the measurement of man (1890s) |
| 48 | Kröhle & Hübner: Anthropology in Peru (1891-1892) |
| 49 | Tanner Brothers: Maori Studies |
| 50 | Jean Demmeni: Borneo expedition to Central-Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1896-1897) |
| 51 | Bronislaw Piotr Pilsudski: Anthropological research in Eastern Asia |
| 52 | Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15) |
| 53 | Edouard Foà: Africa |
| 54 | Alfred M. Duggan-Cronin: The Bantu Tribes of South Africa (1928-1954) |
| 55 | Alfred J. Tulk: Community gathering with drums and dancing, Liberia (1932) |
| Studies of occupational types and "tipos" |
| 56 | Christiano Júnior: Tipos (Brazil) |
| 57 | James Gall: Souvenir of Jamaica |
| 58 | Courret Hermanos: Tipos (Bolivia) |
| 59 | François Aubert: Tipos (Mexico) |
| Compilations of ethographic portraits |
| 60 | C. & F.W. Dammann: Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Men (1875) |
| Scandal |
| 61 | King Billy - A scandal in Tasmania (ca. 1835-1869) |
| Ethnographic nudity |
| 62 | Ethnographic nudity |
| 63 | U.S. Navy Flight School: Pilots |
| Merging of populations through immigration |
| 64 | Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits |
| The continuation of tipos? |
| 65 | August Sander: Portraits |
| 66 | Irving Penn: People of the world |
| 67 | William Coupon: People of the world |
| 68 | Phyllis Galembo: West African Masquerade |
