Sachgebiete

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78 S. mit Abb. Broschiert.

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Einband gering berieben. - Ausstellung vom 9. Sept. - 12. Nov. 1995. - Aspects of Constance's photography - her African subjects, the World War II photographs, those of the Chesapeake Bay - have been seen and appreciated by audiences across the country. We at the Yale Center for British Art are pleased to present her work as a whole, giving viewers the opportunity to trace continuities and connections over five decades of distinguished photography. (S. 5). - Before and after her war experience she engaged in the other work for which she is widely known, the photographing of South Africa's tribal peoples. What led her, between the mid-1930s and the latter 1940s, to take her camera among the Ndebele, Lovedu, Zulu, Basuto, Swazi, and the folk of the Transkei? She did it, she has said, "for the love of photography, the people, and the land." And that does seem to be the spirit of her splendid tribal pictures. There is nothing in them, for instance, of anthropology's simultaneous intrusive-ness and detachment; we see in them no specimen natives performing their customs. (S. 8) ISBN 0930606760