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Algeria: A young woman of the Ouled Nail, photographed by Lehnert and Landrock, c. 1930

Algeria: A young woman of the Ouled Nail, photographed by Lehnert and Landrock, c. 1930

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.