ANTHROPOLOGY

In the anthropological and anthropobiological missions, thousands of portraits of women and men were taken, both frontal and profile. After the negatives were developed, positive prints were made, where the portrait was reframed to obtain systematic images with a neutral background to identify each person studied. Here we show the out-of-field, revealed by the digitalisation of the negatives.

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Anthropological Mission of Mozambique, 1948 campaign
Photograph by Capitão Martinho.
Reproduction of original photographic evidence on 6X6cm developing paper, pasted into an album.
© UL/IICT-MAM Photographic Collection 37024 and 37025

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Anthropological Mission to Timor, 1953 campaign
Antonio Marques de Almeida Jr. [attrib.]
Reproduction of original negatives on 35mm b/w film.
© UL/IICT-MAT Photographic Collection 26636 and 26637