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Painted Bodies: African Body Painting, Tattoos, and Scarification Hardcover – Illustrated, September 18, 2012
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- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRizzoli
- Publication dateSeptember 18, 2012
- Dimensions12.3 x 1.31 x 16.1 inches
- ISBN-100847834050
- ISBN-13978-0847834051
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“..this beautiful book offers up large and colorful photos en masse...I paged through this volume transfixed, amazed at the simple beauty of the patterns and color utilized by the tribal artists documented with great respect for its subjects. This large coffee table-sized book takes great care to not only document the different body-painting styles of numerous tribes, but also to describe in chapter prefaces, the processes and cultural significance of the techniques.” ~Tattoosday
“Leafing through Painted Bodies, the eye-popping book...is a joyful experience. The vivid photos of painted and adorned bodies—some daintily dabbed with dots of paint, others lashed with bold streaks of color—mesmerize and uplift.” ~Professional Photographer
"Best known documenting African cultures, Beckwith and Fisher create an iridescent record of the continent's skin art: body painting, tattoos and scarification." ~American Photo
“It wrings one’s heart, however, when one realizes that these images may well be among the last records of this art that is at the dawn of all art. This book may be romantic and carries the authors’ knowledge very lightly, but if one images is worth 10,000 words, these pictures eloquently plead for the protection of the Omo Valley.” ~The Art Newspaper
"Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s unabashedly spectacular color photographs have nothing to do with art world fashions and trends. In their latest book, they document modern versions of practices thought to have continued for tens of thousands of years... Pictures—intensely colored images that fill page after page with dramatically decorated faces and bodies—are the photographers’ primary achievement. Anyone who leafs through the pages of this book can see stunning evidence of ancient customs that seem to thrive, as well as survive.” ~Los Angeles Review of Books
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- Publisher : Rizzoli; Illustrated edition (September 18, 2012)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0847834050
- ISBN-13 : 978-0847834051
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 12.3 x 1.31 x 16.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #644,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #125 in Photography Criticism & Essays (Books)
- #726 in Portrait Photography
- #2,030 in Arts & Photography Criticism
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Carol Beckwith - im a huge fan!
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