Beschreibung
Cunha Moraes, Angola, Benguela. Um Quimbundo Aleijado
Vintage citrate print. It was in the year 1855 in the city of Coimbra that was born José Augusto Cunha Moraes, who turned out one of the greatest Portuguese photographers.
Only 8 years old, he moved to Angola, where his father had a photo studio. But when his parents died, he returned to Portugal in order to pursue studies. The passion for photography was already family and Cunha Moraes decided to return to Luanda to take over the family's photographic studio account, coinciding this time to the golden age of African expeditions and being Luanda one port of departure and arrival of the explorers of all nationalities .
Most of its production in Africa develops between 1877-1894, publishing photographs in the magazine "The West" and "Photographica Art". Additionally, it produced collections to send various industrial exposures.
Later, he returned to Portugal and collaborates in the House Biel, developing important work in conjunction with other photographers, including The Art and Nature in Portugal.
osé Augusto da Cunha Moraes, he died 78 years later, in 1933, in Porto, leaving important brands within photographic work on colonial lands and Portugal.
Western Africa, Photográphico Album and Descriptivo.
In 1882, Cunha Moraes publishes an album with photographs of West Africa and between 1885 to 1888, published four volumes entitled Africa Occidental - Album Photográphico and Descriptivo under the responsibility of David Corazzi, with Luciano Lamb of preface and fototipias produced in the House Biel (in Porto) with whom he would later work.
Kimbundu, or North Mbundu, one of two Bantu languages called Mbundu (see Umbundu), is the second-most-widely spoken Bantu language in Angola. It is concentrated in the north-west of the country, notably in the Luanda Province, the Bengo Province, the Malanje Province and the Cuanza Norte Province. It is spoken by the Ambundu.
Maho (2009) distinguishes two primary dialects: Kimbundu proper, including Ngola, and Mbamba, incl. Njinga.The other Kimbundu languages are sometimes considered dialects as well.
In part of the Malanje Province, culturally "assimilated" Ambundu populations produced a mix of Kimbundu and Portuguese called Ambaca, whose speakers are called Ambaquistas.
Tirage citrate
18x24
Circa 1888
