Abstract
Abstract The picnic blanket is lumpy, the ants bite, and the food’s sandy, but you see so much more when you’re eating on the ground. The picnic and the portable camera came of age together in late Ottoman society, and “vernacular” picnic photographs are a ubiquitous feature of the Sephardic photo album. This essay converses with the children, women, men, and objects that appear in these images, considering how Sephardic Jews relaxed and ate in nature at a time when so much was shifting around them—and whether the scattered, globally diasporic, families-owned archive of the Sephardic photo album can be united to restore a lived, dusty, lusty image of late and post-Ottoman Jewish life.
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