That photographic negatives by Algerian portraitist Lazhar Mansouri survive seems remarkable in itself. According to one published account, they narrowly escaped incineration at a time of civil unrest and were hidden in the mountains east of Algiers during the Kabylian revolution. From a culling of the 100,000 2.25-inch negatives that make up the archive, 120 were processed and printed at roughly 15 by 11 inches; 55 were included by curator James Cavello in this traveling show, Lazhar Mansouri: Portraits of a Village 1950–70.
