antique portraits

#TBT — Guatemalan mother and son from the 1880s

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Guatemalan mother and son from the 1880s by Emilio Herbruger Sr.

For this #TBT or Throw Back Thursday we are going back all the way to the 1880s with this portrait of a Guatemalan mother and son from the 1880s made by renown photographer Emilio Herbruger Sr. Notice how in all the antiques portraits people are leaning on a table, chair or podium. The reason is … Read more

Meet Photographer Juan José de Jesús Yas

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Portrait of Photographer Juan José de Jesús Yas

Japanese-born photographer Juan José de Jesús Yas (1844-1917), was one of the most renowned photographers of the late 1800, early 1900. Below is a brief description of the life and importance of Juan J.J. Yas found at Fotofest’s Faces of History in Latin America: In colonial Latin America and for most of the nineteenth and … Read more