Arthur B. Jacques Photographs — Marine Camera Gaze, Haitian Women, and Occupation-Era Looking

A small but significant occupation-era photograph archive by Lieutenant Arthur B. Jacques, analyzed most fully by Mary Renda in Taking Haiti as evidence of how marines and occupation observers turned Haitians — especially women — into objects of ethnographic, racial, and sexualized looking. Jacques's portraits of Haitian women, including his famous 'typical country woman riding her burro,' perform the typologizing logic of colonial ethnography, while other photographs document the sexual dimension of occupation power. The archive maps the quieter, everyday visual violence of the U.S. occupation alongside the spectacular coercion visible in images like the Charlemagne Péralte photograph.