A vanished world Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher: London : HarperCollins, 2001.
ISBN: 0007108370
DDC: 779.990982
LCC: DS204.2
Summary:
"Wilfred Thesinger's portraits of tribal peoples have earned him
worldwide recognition as a photographer. Using a box camera which had
belonged to his father, he began his photographic career in 1930, at
the age of twenty, during a short hunting trip in Ethiopia, and used
the same camera to photograph hostile Danakil tribesmen when he
returned three years later to explore the Awash river." "While in the
Sudan, and now equipped with a Leica 35mm camera, Thesiger portrayed
Muslim tribes in Northern Darfur, pagan Nuer in the Western Nile
swamps and magnificent Nuba wrestlers. Among Ethiopia's Danakil he
had travelled as a European accompanied by servants, but here he
lived in increasingly equal terms with his followers. His photography
mirrors this changed attitude - rather than simply recording people,
places and events, he began to select and compose his subjects more
carefully." "These portraits of Thesinger's were all taken under
exceptional conditions, often in particularly hosile environments.
Together the provide a pictorial record of diverse cultures and
vanished worlds."--BOOK JACKET.
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