Algiers 1951
Signs of a country in waiting Category : Art Textes : Benjamin Stora, Maïssa Bey, Malek Alloula Photographer : Etienne Sved 60 B&W photos Size : 24 x 25,5 cm/ Hard Cover with jacket 112 pages / Black & white French Le Bec en l'air ISBN : 2916073000 / 32 € Release date : Rights availableIn 1951, Algeria was under French colonial rule and the few images taken on the country were taken by the colonists. This is the year Etienne Sved visited Algeria. It started taking photographs. These images are not like those we are used to seeing of Algeria. They depict society in the 1950's through real-life scenes. Behind the apparent stillness of markets, and the inscrutable glances of the inhabitants, this little known photos reveal the daily life of a people and herald the coming conflicts.
