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Morocco: Supposedly a 'young female slave in a harem', Tangiers, early 20th century

Morocco: Supposedly a 'young female slave in a harem', Tangiers, early 20th century

Photo in the tradition of Lehnert & Landrock: Rudolf Franz Lehnert (Czech) and Ernst Heinrich Landrock (German) had a photographic company based in Tunis, Cairo and Leipzig before World War II. They specialised in somewhat risque Orientalist images of young Arab and Bedouin women, often dancers.

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