Frisch, Albert (1840-1918)

Albert Frisch was a German photographer. In 1865 he emigrated from Augsburg to Brazil and worked in Georges Leuzinger’s photography studio in Rio de Janeiro. In 1867 Leuzinger sent Frisch on a year-long expedition to the Amazon, which took him from Manaus to the Peruvian border. This trip resulted in some of the earliest known images of indigenous people in the Amazon region. Frisch used photomontage and combination printing techniques.

Material:

• 1 case. Photographs by Albert Frisch can also be found at Linden-Museum in Stuttgart and at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig.
• 21 black-and-white photographs (indigenous people, 1867)

Provenance: from Walter Lehmann’s papers.

Keywords: Brazil, ethnology, history of photography