Peter Lavery - of humankind

With a Foreword by Robin Muir. Over the years, Peter Lavery's photographic work has taken him virtually to every corner of the globe. During this period, he has set aside time to make portraits for himself of people he met in his travels and who interested him not as types but as individuals. The result of this passion is 'of humankind, a compelling gallery containing, among others, Japanese geisha and Xingu tribesmen, Australian cowboys and indigenous Greenlanders, New Guinea warriors and Masai herdsmen. The images are set against a simple black background, a device as old as photography itself, as Lavery points out. 'I wanted to play down the exoticism of my subjects,' he writes. 'I knew that I was interested in the being under the body of paint or feathers and primitive weapons.' As a photographer, Lavery is exacting and demanding. An abiding concern is to keep himself out of the work so as to capture the simple, essential human character of his sitters. 143 Seiten mit 64 Abb., Großformat, Leinen (Kruse Verlag 2000) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear

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