Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

170 S. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Music and dance are at the very root of African life. The transit of the seasons, the cycle of birth and death, the initiation into adulthood-all are celebrated in rituals and ceremonies that are enacted to the beat of drums, the chant of voices, the urgent movement of bodies. Young and old are brought together in spectacular displays of rhythm, motion, and drama-rich in history and meaning. These ceremonies, unchanged for centuries, are now rapidly disappearing as modernization takes hold. Dance is the central theme of this remarkable book, which features one hundred sixty photographs taken by French photographer Michel Huet. Spanning a period of more than forty years, from 1945 to 1985, the photographs depict the dances and ceremonial rituals of fifty African tribes, among them the Yoruba, Tutsi, Dogon, Mbuti, and Masai-the result of Huet's extensive travels from Senegal to the Congo Basin, from the Ivory Coast to Rwanda, in his quest to record every aspect of African life. Each picture is a masterpiece, capturing the harmony of movement, the spontaneity, the gestures, the expressions, as well as the colors and details of the extraordinary costumes, and jewelry. The earlier black-and-white images, spectacularly reproduced in tritone, are set against the brilliant color of those taken during the '70s and '80s: in some cases, Huet returned to the places he visited in the '40s and '50s to photograph the same rituals and ceremonies. ISBN 9780810932289