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143 S., sehr zahlr. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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Umschl. gering berieben. - Pervading all the pictures in this book is that sense of wonderment surely experienced by those pioneering travellers who first brought back haunting documents from far-off places. Lavery's portraits remind us of Cartier-Bresson's remark that photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and which no contrivance on earth can bring back. From the foreword by Robin Muir Over the years, Peter Lavery's photographic work has taken him virtually to every corner of the globe. During this period, he has set aside time to make portraits for himself of people he met in his travels and who interested him not as types but as individuals. The result of this passion is Of Humankind, a compelling gallery containing, among others, Japanese geisha and Xingu tribesmen, Australian cowboys and indigenous Greenlanders, New Guinea warriors and Masai herdsmen. The images are set against a simple black background, a device as old as photography itself, as Lavery points out. 'I wanted to play down the exoticism of my subjects,' he writes. 'I knew that I was interested in the being under the body of paint or feathers and primitive weapons.' As a photographer, Lavery is exacting and demanding. An abiding concern is to keep himself out of the work so as to capture the simple, essential human character of his With notes by the photographer and a foreword by Robin Muir. - 144 pages, 64 reproductions in quadrotone. ISBN 393492302X