The People of Kau
by Riefenstahl, Leni
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060135697
- ISBN 13
- 9780060135690
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976. Cloth, 224 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 31 cm. Photographs, text and layout by Leni Riefenstahl; translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. After the fall of the Third Reich, Riefenstahl attempted to rehabiliate her image as a photographer of African tribal people's, but Hitler's favourite filmmakere has also been criticized for her stereotypical portrayals of Africans as noble savages. "This is a photographic monograph on the life of the people of Kau. Leni Riefenstahl spent 16 weeks with the Nuba of Kau in 1975. The knife-fights, dances of love and elaborately painted faces and bodies are photographed in the book." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113988
- Title
- The People of Kau
- Author
- Riefenstahl, Leni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0060135697
- ISBN 13
- 9780060135690
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography / Individual Photographer; African / Traditional Arts; Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits;
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