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Arabs siriens. Aveugl portent un paralitique / Dumas Ph. – Antique Wall Art

Arabs siriens. Aveugl portent un paralitique / Dumas Ph., 1889 — historic photograph
Arabs siriens. Aveugl portent un paralitique / Dumas Ph., 1889. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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A blind man carries a paralyzed companion on his back in this albumen print, titled "Arabes syriens. Aveugle portant un paralytique" and credited to the photographer Dumas, with the catalog note identifying the scene as Syrian Arabs. The pairing of the two men is the point of the picture: one supplies the eyes, the other the legs, a partnership that let each travel and beg where neither could manage alone. Photographs of such figures were popular in the 1880s, when studio and traveling photographers sold images of regional "types" to European and American buyers, so the staging and the subjects' poses reflect that market as much as daily life in Syria.

Created / published1889
Medium1 photographic print: albumen.
GenrePortrait photographs 1880-1890.Group portraits 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890.
NotesTitle from item. No. 2044. On verso: Asia. Syria - Natives. Arabs. Blind man carrying a paralygic.
SubjectsPersons with disabilities--Physical characteristics--Middle East--1880-1890. Blind persons--Middle East--1880-1890. Disfigured persons--Middle East--1880-1890. Lifting & carrying--Middle East--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan945 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166686

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