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- catalog abstract ""With a traveling photography studio set-up of their own invention and a generous supply of patience and determination, this German photographer and writer team traversed the world in search of the last cultures living apart from an increasingly materialistic world." "Gunter Pfannmuller and Wilhelm Klein have searched for what they describe as a form of dignity that will soon be extinct. What they have found are profoundly enlightened ways of life that manifest in elaborate costume, ritual, and material culture. Throughout Africa and Southeast Asia, they found areas that have remained largely unaffected by the technological changes and globalization of our age. An astounding and rapid increase in information technology has transformed the values, lifestyles, and self-perception of the developed world." "Pfannmuller and Klein believe that taking photographs in a studio setting is the best way to isolate, and thereby identify and record, remaining elements of the individual and the human lost to modern culture. Their images unveil a resonant dignity in the faces, stances, and dress of people who have little self-consciousness but complete self-possession." "Acclaimed scientist, anthropologist, and writer Wade Davis contributes a preface in which his twenty-five years of experience studying indigenous cultures establishes an intellectual foreground for this intimate record of individuals from isolated and vanishing cultures."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12403773.
- catalog contributor b12403774.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""With a traveling photography studio set-up of their own invention and a generous supply of patience and determination, this German photographer and writer team traversed the world in search of the last cultures living apart from an increasingly materialistic world." "Gunter Pfannmuller and Wilhelm Klein have searched for what they describe as a form of dignity that will soon be extinct. What they have found are profoundly enlightened ways of life that manifest in elaborate costume, ritual, and material culture. Throughout Africa and Southeast Asia, they found areas that have remained largely unaffected by the technological changes and globalization of our age. An astounding and rapid increase in information technology has transformed the values, lifestyles, and self-perception of the developed world." "Pfannmuller and Klein believe that taking photographs in a studio setting is the best way to isolate, and thereby identify and record, remaining elements of the individual and the human lost to modern culture. Their images unveil a resonant dignity in the faces, stances, and dress of people who have little self-consciousness but complete self-possession." "Acclaimed scientist, anthropologist, and writer Wade Davis contributes a preface in which his twenty-five years of experience studying indigenous cultures establishes an intellectual foreground for this intimate record of individuals from isolated and vanishing cultures."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "157 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0893819123".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Aperture,".
- catalog subject "779/.2/092 21".
- catalog subject "GN380 .P494 2002".
- catalog subject "Indigenous peoples Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Indigenous peoples Portraits.".
- catalog subject "Photography in ethnology.".
- catalog subject "Portrait photography.".
- catalog title "In search of dignity / photographs by Günter Pfannmüller ; essays by Wilhelm Klein ; preface by Wade Davis.".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "Portraits. fast".
- catalog type "text".