Page from Henry Field's Album #19, photographs by Richard A. Martin
Ernest Chante, Les Kurds: Esquisse Historique et Ethnographique, 1897
Photograph from French anthropologist Ernest Chante's Les Kurds: Esquisse Historique et Ethnographique, 1897
“In a bookstall squeezed into a crowded alley, I see a postcard entitled ‘Kurde Noble’. I ask myself, Is the man in the picture really a Kurd? I know that turn-of-the-century studios routinely offered their clients exotic costumes to wear when being photographed. The name of the noble Kurd does not appear on the back.
It is assumed I am a tourist until I ask to buy this card. Then, immediately, the shopkeeper finds me suspect. This image from 1895 celebrating Kurdish identity, produced for and sold to early travelers, is now forbidden…." - SM Introduction to Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History
Photograph by Armenian photographer Antoine Sevruguin
The Sevruguin family, undated
Photograph by Percival Richards, British Administrator
Text on back of photograph by Percival Richards, British Administrator
Kurdish Jew, by Albert Kahn
Zakho Kurd, by Albert Kahn