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Lot description
Photo album with leather binding and gold embossing, 24 photographs by the Australian (German-born) landscape and ethnographic photographer John William Lindt (born 1845 in Frankfurt am Main - 1926 Black Spur). Album title: Picturesque New Guinea, published in 1887. Early photographs of Papua New Guinea, who became known for his landscape, portrait, and ethnographic photographs. A historical testimony, both visually and photographically. It depicts the 19th-century colonial perspective on "exotic" cultures of that time. The 24 photographs are based on earlier travel photography and depictions of remote regions, including Elevala Island in Port Moresby from the perspective of Metoreia Hill and Mola Mater Reef near Port Moresby during the European colonial period. All 24 photographs were later supplemented with handwritten image captions (probably not by him himself). Photographs 15 cm x 20.5 cm, album L 25.5 cm x W 19.5 cm x D 6.5 cm, leather binding rubbed, provenance: private collector in Krefeld, Germany.