Christiano Junior

José Christiano de Freitas Henriques Junior (1832–1902), mostly known as Christiano Junior, was a Portuguese-born photographer. He was one of the most prominent photographers in Argentina in the 19th century.

During a time, Christiano Junior was associated with British colleague Alexander Witcomb, who would later acquire Junior's studio and photographs, adding them to his own material. In 1970, Witcomb's entire artwork became part of the General Archive of the Nation as an evidence of the history of Argentina registered on photographs.

Biography Born in Flores island, Azores Islands, Portugal, he emigrated to Brazil in 1855. It is unclear how Christiano Junior learned the techniques of photography. In 1863 he began its activities in Rio de Janeiro. During that period, the subjects of his photos are mainly slaves and people affected by Lymphatic filariasis.

During the period he lived in Rio de Janeiro, he photographed several African-descendants slaves, which were almost half of the city's population by then (110,000 out of a total of 266,000 inhabitants). His camera caught the slaves in poses that staged their professional activities. Most pictures depicted street vendors. Junior collaborated with the institution until 1878, when he sold his studio. San Luis, San Juan, Santiago del Estero, Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy provinces to complete the work stated with Vistas y costumbres.... |group=n|name=oldcongress Plaza de Lorea Casa de Expósitos (orphanage) Pueyrredón Bridge Plaza de la Victoria

Vistas y costumbres de la Republica Argentina (1877) Second album with 12 photos also, which depicted:

Metropolitan Cathedral Escenas de la playa (launders at Río de la Plata) Buenos Aires and Ensenada Port Railway bridge Escenas de la playa (fishers at Río de la Plata) Statue of Valentín Alsina El naranjero (oranges street vendor) Quinta del General Brown La Boca del Riachuelo Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires Santa Felicitas Church Hospital Italiano Dique de San Fernando