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Sunday, December 27, 2020


Eliot Elisofon took this photo for LIFE in 1943 at the 
Gafsa ancient Roman baths in North Africa.

 

6 comments:

  1. Would Life have actually published this picture in the magazine?

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    1. Short answer is no. The LIFE editors didn't use all the photos the photographers took, and others were cropped before publication. Nearly all of them went into the archive in the original configuration.

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  2. Ancient Roman baths once again see naked men bathing.

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  3. I wonder how much of the baths is original?

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    1. I read that only the swimming pools were left, and that the springs feeding the pools have dried up due to overexploitation of the aquifer.

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