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Mar 22, 2021 17 tweets 6 min read
Unveiling Algerian women: how French photographers turned the Algérienne into an orientalist fantasy to further France’s colonial project

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sacredfootsteps.org/2021/03/21/unv… When the French occupied Algeria, they took hundreds of photos between 1900-30. They were printed as postcards and distributed in France.