Constance Stuart Larrabee Photographs of African Tribes/Graucho and the Native Girls

“We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren’t developed. . . we’re going back next week.”

Groucho Marx

The English-born photographer Constance Stuart Larrabee is known for two distinct bodies of work: her black and white prints of South Africa’s tribal people (Zulu, Ndebele, Lovedu, Swazi, Sotho, Transkei, and Bushmen) – produced in the ’30s and ’40s – and her Life magazine-style photo-journalism in which she documented the liberation of Europe from the Nazis.

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08/12/2010 | Categories: Photography, Travel | Tags: 1930s, 1940s, 30s, 40s, Africa, African, Black & White, Bushmen, Constance, Constance Stuart Larrabee, Culture, Ethnic, Graucho Marx, History, Hut, Larrabee, Lovedu, Ndebele, Photography, Portraits, Quote, Research, Sotho, Stuart, Swazi, Transkei, Travel, Tribe, Vintage, Women, Women Photographer, Zulu | 1 Comment