Spanos, (Demetrios) and (Panagiotis) Tsitsias. Territory of Lourenço Marques. Lourenço Marques, Spanos & Tsitsias not dated (ca.1910). Quer-8° (18 x 23,5 cm.). Title page and 18 color plates (collotypes). Publishers cardboard hardcover.

First and only edition. – The photos show: Public Park, passenger landing pier at Marracuene near Lourenço Marques, Port Melville, Inyack Island, Marracuene near Lourenço Marques, On the Umbeluzi River, Fishing village at Inyack Island, Moodie’s Creek near Barberton, Transvaal, Native Village Huts at Umbeluzi near Lourenço Marques and others. – The territory featured in these works is the former district and colonial capital of Lourenço Marques in Portuguese East Africa, which was renamed Maputo after Mozambique’s independence in 1975. Geographically, the territory is situated on the northern bank of the Espírito Santo Estuary at Delagoa Bay (Indian Ocean). The historical district and city historically spanned the immediate coastal region, acting as a major port and railway terminus connecting the hinterlands of South Africa (Transvaal) and Swaziland to the sea. – The two photographers, Demetrios Spanos and Panagiotis Tsitsias, were Greek immigrants who ran a well-known photography studio, a postcard publishing company, and a general store in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo). For their famous albums, they traveled throughout the region, documenting the architecture of the colonial city, everyday life, and the traditions of the local population. In addition to bound photo albums, they produced hundreds of numbered postcards (Postais de Moçambique), which today are valuable historical documents for research and popular collector’s items. They were part of a small group of early European professional photographers in Mozambique – much like the better-known Lazarus brothers, with whom they shaped the market for colonial photography around the turn of the century. – In very good condition.

• Kategorie: Photographie
• Schlagwörter: Africa · Afrika · Color photography · Farbfotografie · Farbphotographie · Kolonialismus · Kolonien · Maputo · Mozambique
• Sprache: Portugiesisch / Englisch
• Erstausgabe
• Bestellnummer: 109733BB

Unser Preis: EUR 320,--