Untitled (West Indian Women Being Measured)
1860–1869
- Medium
- three studies mounted on a single card
- Dimensions
- Image 1: 8.6 x 5.2 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.); Image 2: 8.6 x 5.2 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.); Image 3: 8.5 x 5.2 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- photograph
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Caribbean, 19th century
About
The eerie depictions of three ages of West Indian women of African descent are early examples of photography’s use by nineteenth-century anthropologists to categorize different ethnic and racial types within the human race. These images were almost certainly taken by a European or Caucasian photographer during a time of colonial occupation.