Africaines
Africaines is an 1897 French ethnographic book by Charles Lemaire, printed in Brussels by the Imprimerie Scientifique and held by the Smithsonian Libraries, aimed at a scholarly readership interested in African women. The four pictures are black-and-white halftone photographs of African women and a man in studio or open settings, with bare-shouldered figures, wrapped cloth, a seated woman grinding grain on a stone, and a man with scarification and beaded necklace; a designer might draw on their stark documentary posing and tonal contrast.
