view the Guardian Weekly’s online slideshow of 11 prints from the photographic exhibit at Galerie Livet. I’ve used this portrait of a Tangier man to illustrate this post because it’s a classic example of how the photographic medium was also used as a tool in the field of “ethnic” studies. The Guardian Weekly article grossly points out how the “sense of empathy is so strong [for the subject] that it quite surpasses conventional ethnic studies.”

PHOTO: Man from Tangier, 1859, by Gustave de Beaucorps, Galerie Livet