Photograph by Carl Mydans. Milan, Italy, 1940.

Photograph by Carl Mydans. Milan, Italy, 1940.

A man in traditional gaucho attire riding horseback as another flirts with an unresponsive woman during Creole Week. Photograph by Leonard McCombe. Montevideo, Uruguay, 1964.

A man in traditional gaucho attire riding horseback as another flirts with an unresponsive woman during Creole Week. Photograph by Leonard McCombe. Montevideo, Uruguay, 1964.

Black Forest, Germany, undated.

Black Forest, Germany, undated.

Photograph by Walter Sanders. Yugoslavia, June 1948.

Photograph by Walter Sanders. Yugoslavia, June 1948.

Young women about to compete in a dancing contest at the Banff Highland Gathering. Photograph by Hans Wild. Scotland, September 1946.

Young women about to compete in a dancing contest at the Banff Highland Gathering. Photograph by Hans Wild. Scotland, September 1946.

Debutante Maria Dolores Carrillo at Baile de Carnaval. Photograph by Robert W. Kelley. Havana, Cuba, February 1954.

Debutante Maria Dolores Carrillo at Baile de Carnaval. Photograph by Robert W. Kelley. Havana, Cuba, February 1954.

Howard Sochurek, Cambodia, July 1952.

Howard Sochurek, Cambodia, July 1952.

Photograph by Nicholas Senn. Tahiti, 1906.

Photograph by Nicholas Senn. Tahiti, 1906.

A Zulu chief calling his warriors to attention. Photograph by Hart Preston. South Africa, May 1943.

A Zulu chief calling his warriors to attention. Photograph by Hart Preston. South Africa, May 1943.