A stunning collection of photographs taken throughout Africa, which document the rich and varied ways of life that have sustained millions of people for so many generations. These pictures of costumes, ceremonies and rites of passage preserve these images for the future.
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Placing her hands gently on either side of her daughter's face, a Himba woman rolls down the thick brown coil of her ceremonial ekori headdress. Eyes closed in the darkness of their hut in northwestern Namibia, both mother and daughter register the gravity of this moment, shortly before the girl's wedding. The headdress insures that she looks only into the future that awaits her as a married woman and not grieve over leaving her family.
During courtship season in southwestern Ethiopia, a lanky Surma youth whose own body is covered with an intricate pattern from biceps to thighs uses all 10 fingers to drag wavy lines of white pigment over the belly of another boy scowling with concentration.
Intimate moments like these, sensitively captured in Passages by veteran photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, give Westerners an unusual feeling of kinship with rites of passage among African peoples in different parts of the continent. Even large-scale ritual scenes have a striking immediacy and a refreshing straightforwardness that emphasizes the human, rather than the exotic. These images are the result of long periods of contact between the photographers and their subjects, whose traditional celebrations offer only a few glimpses of the inroads of contemporary culture (T-shirts worn by men watching a funeral parade in Ghana, a Tuareg nomad's wire-rimmed sunglasses).
The 89 memorable images in this large-format paperback were selected from the 850 color photographs in the photographers' popular two-volume African Ceremonies. (They are also on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York through September 24, 2000.) --Cathy Curtis
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Passages:Photographs in Africa,
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Great large format whole page images, some of which were presented in the two volume hardback "Ceremonies". Beautiful people, cultures and images for a great price. I hope the traditions of our world never never leave us. A beautiful book.
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Stunning but not stable,
This review is from: Passages: Photographs in Africa (Paperback)
This is a jewel of a book but unfortunately it is falling apart, the cover is completely detached, and I have not even had it very long. The photographs however, will move you.
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Quasi un mese per la consegna...,
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libro in condizioni accettabili, ma perchè tutte quelle etichette adesive sulla copertina?
Lo hanno rovinato più dell'usura! Peccato...
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