Jun 8, 2020
Alberto Henschel He knew Black Lives Mattered..
Alberto Henschel was a German-Brazilian photographer born in Berlin. Considered the hardest-working photographer and businessman in 19th-century Brazil, with offices in Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.
Henschel’s most important contribution to the history of photography in Brazil is the portraits he took of people of African origin, slaves and free, “differing him from other photographers because he tried to portray them freely and with dignity, as people and not as objects”.
You can now see some of the photos in color for the first time.
