Tunisia / Algeria / Morocco: Two young Ouled Nail girls. Lehnert and Landrock, c. 1915

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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