Onze boeken

Dances of Africa

Door Michel Huet

Categorie	Geschiedenis Afrika
Boeknummer	#297235
Titel	Dances of Africa
Auteur	Huet, Michel
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Harry N. Abrams
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	0810932288
ISBN13	9780810932289
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	Dance is the central theme of this remarkable book, which features one hundred sixty photographs taken by French photographer Michel Huet. Spanning a period of more than forty years, from 1945 to 1985, the photographs depict the dances and ceremonial rituals of fifty African tribes, among them the Yoruba, Tutsi, Dogon, Mbuti, and Masai - the result of Huet's extensive travels from Senegal to the Congo Basin, from the Ivory Coast to Rwanda, in his quest to record every aspect of African life. Each picture is a masterpiece, capturing the harmony of movement, the spontaneity, the gestures, the expressions, as well as the colors and details of the extraordinary costumes, and jewelry. The earlier black-and-white images, spectacularly reproduced in tritone, are set against the brilliant color of... (Lees verder) those taken during the '70s and '8Os: in some cases, Huet returned to the places he visited in the '40s and '5Os to photograph the same rituals and ceremonies. Accompanying this exceptional collection of images is a highly informative text by Claude Savary, Curator at the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva, Switzerland. In the introduction he outlines the political history of Africa over the past fifty years and presents an overview of the traditions that form the basis of African ritual life. His intriguing commentary on the photographs explains the various ceremonies pictured and gives a brief ethnographic description of each of the peoples covered in the book.
Pagina's	170
Conditie	Redelijk — Some underlinings with pencil.
Prijs	€ 15,00

Toevoegen aan winkelwagen

Onze gebruikte boeken verkeren in goede tweedehands staat, tenzij hierboven anders beschreven. Kleine onvolkomenheden zijn niet altijd vermeld.