Natural Fashion, Tribal Decoration from Africa

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Von Silvester, Hans W.

Tharnes & Hudson, 2009. 167 S. m. zahlr. Farbabb., Kartoniert

ISBN: 978-0-500-28805-4

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The lower valley of the Omo, at the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan, remains one of the wildest places in Africa. Over the course of numerous voyages to this remote land, Hans Silvester became fascinated by the beauty of the Surma and Mursi tribes, who share a taste for body painting and elaborate decorations borrowed from nature.
In this region of East Africa, the rivers that run through the dry savannas are home to abundant flowers, papyrus, and wild fruit trees, and this luxuriance becomes an invitation to creativity and spectacle. Within hand's reach, a multitude of plants inspire fanciful and ephemeral self-decoration, and the Omo tribes react spontaneously: a leaf, root, seed pod, or flower is quickly transformed into an accessory. These decorations are embellished with butterfly wings, buffalo horns, boar's teeth, colorful feathers, and the like, and are further enhanced by body painting with pigments made from powdered stone, plants, berries, and river mud.
This intriguing book provides a priceless record of a unique and increasingly fragile way of life, one threatened by conflict, climate change, and tourism.

Hans Silvester, Jg. 1938, hat bereits mit zwölf Jahren seine ersten Fotos aufgenommen. Sein 1960 erschienener Bildband über die 'Camargue' wurde ein Bestseller. Hans Silvester lebt mit seinen Katzen und seiner Familie in der Provence. Seine Katzenbücher sind internationale Erfolge, und auch Deutschlands Katzenfreunden ist Silvester ein Wohlbekannter.