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Photographs of Dahomey (1967)

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#367037-AE14
Titel	Photographs of Dahomey (1967)
Auteur	Penn, Irving
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	3775714499
ISBN13	9783775714495
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	Irving Penn is one of the most noteworthy photographers of the twentieth century, best known for his inimitable fashion and portrait photographs, as well as his unique still lifes. In 1967, Penn traveled on assignment from the American fashion journal <i>Vogue</i> to Dahomey in western Africa, now the Republic of Benin. His portraits of natives taken in a portable studio built especially for the occasion reflect Penn's fascination with foreign cultures, as do his photographs of culturally significant clay figures dedicated primarily to the voodoo god Legba. 35 years after their publication in <i>Vogue</i>, Irving Penn presents these portraits of tribal people and his photographs of Legba altars in book form for the first time. With texts by leading anthropologists a... (Lees verder)nd Irving Penn himself, this volume is an extraordinary photographic document of African culture, from a master recorder of our time.
Pagina's	79
Conditie	Nieuw — Still shrinkwrapped.
Prijs	€ 45,00

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