A passage to Congo - LOOS, PIERRE|PIERRE BUCH
photographs by doctor Émile Muller 1923-1938
KORTE INHOUD
"A Passage to Congo" is a collection of photographs taken by Doctor Emile Muller (1891-1976) in the Congo provinces of the Kasai and Katanga, territories of the Chokwe, Luba, Bashibushong and Basalampasu tribes. For these people, he was not the "boss", but he who cured, who gave relief, who listened. He could move easily between the tribes without having to tackle the reticence that has denatured so many ethnic photographs. The privileged witnesses of esoteric ceremonies that are rarely photographed, his images are precious from an ethnographic and historical point of view, and reveal a fine aesthetic sense and profound humanity. Veritable living masks, as in the remarkable portraits of young Chokwe girls, astonishing initiation rites, scenes of divination, wild rhythmic dances responding to the beat of the large slotted drums, sculptural bodies decorated with tattoos and refined headgear recall the beauty and riches of these cultures, now lost in the modern world.Although some of Muller's negatives have surv...
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2008Uitgever: 5 CONTINENTS EDITIONS142 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 8874393997ISBN-13: 9788874393992Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's paper-covered boards, pictorial front- & backcover, large 4to: frontispiece portrait, [144]pp., 146 mostly page-large bl.& wh. photographs, introductory essay on Émile Muller with photographs - map, captions. Very fine copy - as new. Milan-Bruxelles, 5 Continents Éditions-Buch Édition. 2007 [Auteur: LOOS, PIERRE/PIERRE BUCH] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: A Passage to Congo. Photographs bij doctor Emile Muller 1923-1938]
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Original pictorial boards, richly illustrated with b/w photographs, unpaged, 4to. [Auteur: Loos, Pierre & Pierre Buch] [Pagina's: 144] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Milan/Bruxelles, 5 Continents Editions/Buch Édition] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: A Passage to Congo: photographs bij doctor Émile Muller 1923-1938]
