With a traveling photography studio of their own invention and a generous supply of determination and patience, this German photographer and writer team traversed Africa and South Asia in search of people living apart from an increasingly materialistic world. Gnter Pfannmller and Wilhelm Klein discovered what they have described as a form of dignity that will soon be extinct. Their photographs unveil a resonant humanity in the faces, postures, and elaborate dress of people whose traditions and strong sense of material culture afford them complete self-possession. The acclaimed scientist, anthropologist, and writer Wade Davis contributes a preface in which his twenty-five years of experience studying indigenous cultures establishes an intellectual foreground for this intimate record.
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"...these stunning images capture not only the essence of a culture but of the individual. Hunters, healers, traders, warriors, artists, initiates, beggars, wise men, women, and children, each identified with a small story. But the images speak more than words. This is a treasure of a book." -- The Explorer's Journal
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Text by Wilhelm Klein.
Preface by Wade Davis.
A unique documentation of isolated and vanishing cultures around the world.
With a traveling photographic studio setup of their own invention and a generous supply of patience and determination, this photographer-and-writer team traversed the globe in search of the last cultures to live apart from an increasingly materialistic world. Throughout Africa and Southeast Asia, they found areas that have remained largely unaffected by the globalizing technological changes of our age.
The astounding and rapid advances in information technology have transformed the values, lifestyles, and self-perceptions of the majority of people in the developed world. Günter Pfannmüller and Wilhelm Klein searched for what they describe as a form of dignity that will soon be extinct. What they found are simple but profoundly enlightened ways of life that are expressed in elaborate costume, ritual, and material culture.
Pfannmüller and Klein believe that taking portraits in a studio setting is the best way to isolate, and thereby identify and record, the remaining elements of the individual and the human lost to modern culture. Their images unveil a resonant dignity in the faces, stances, and dress of people who have little self-consciousness but complete self-possession.
Günter Pfannmüller is a photographer based in Frankfurt, Germany. Wilhelm Klein, a writer and publisher specializing in travel literature, lives in Bangkok, Thailand. They are the co-authors of Burma and Burma the Golden.
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In Search Of Dignity is an amazing book for anyone intereseted in cultural anthropology and photography. I perused these pages one time on Amazon and realized that it was an important profile of people untouched by todays materialistic lifestlyes. They indeed still live as their ancestors and tribes before them and its remarkable how real these people are. Mind you many of the bodies are scarred, tattood, and pierced but it just brings out the symbolism of their beliefs. I thought this book was well done and it should be praised not lauded. The text written is very informative as well, but its the photography that makes this book unforgettable
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