The Invention of Racism in Color

Die Erfindung des Rassismus in Farbe

Also known as Fotografía: los colores del racismo, Fotografia i kolonializm: barwy rasizmu, Il razzismo a colori: le ex colonie tedesche e la fotografia, Racism in Colour: Photography of Former-German Colonies

Between 1907 and 1909, Robert Lohmeyer (1879-1959), a German pioneer of color photography, traveled through the German colonies in Africa and portrayed their landscapes and native peoples in color for the first time, thus fulfilling a laudable purpose; but also laying the foundations for an enduring racist vision of the entire continent.