rush comeau kahlo has reclaimed hundreds of photos from this book. the peoples of the earth originally published in 1902 as an academic work she sees it as more of a collection of colonial fairy tales she dissects them and overlays them with new content laden with irony and political commentary. magic gaskins our futuristic aeronauts and persian dervish as lesser. it's also about the type of representation where people are pictured so that their humanity. when you look at their pictures and for me the projects all my projects are kind of bringing this humanity about. the series do you know our names there's a similar active rehabilitation based on images of women's bodies from the same book stereotyped for ethnographic research. a lot of these original images the women were without hair without close the eyes were unfocused there was like so little representation of their humanity or their dignity or their beauty the painting for me was a type of care i started to give them make up i started to give them a modern hairstyle i started to give them clot