North Africa Nude Arab Girl 1914 Real Photo Postcard
The designation Nu Académique Marocain positions this photograph within a specific European artistic and colonial framework, where the term academic nude traditionally refers to studies of the human form in art academies. Applying this nomenclature to a Moroccan subject during the late 19th or early 20th century, a period of heightened French colonial presence and influence in Morocco, reflects a Western gaze that often exoticized and objectified indigenous populations under the guise of art or ethnography.
