The Invention of Racism in Color

Name: The Invention of Racism in Color
Director: Michael Mueller-Erdorf
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2023-05-03
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Josef Tratnik, Birgitt Fleck, Robert Steudtner

DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie6.8202352m

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Storyline

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.