Encounters With the Dani: Stories from the Baliem Valley - Rilegato

Meiselas, Susan

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ISBN 10: 3882439300 ISBN 13: 9783882439304

Casa editrice: Steidl, 2003

Riassunto

In her most recent body of work, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas pieces together verbal and visual traces of encounters with the Dani--an indigenous people of the West Papuan highlands--from the nearly six decades since their "discovery" by the West. In this subjective, fragmentary history, Meiselas draws from the experiences of missionaries, colonists, anthropologists and modern-day ecotourists, all of whom have come to the Dani's Baliem Valley and transformed the conditions under which they live. The ambiguous relations between power and representation--whether in the form of Dutch colonial patrol notes from the 1930s, the sensationalized media accounts of the survivors of a downed U.S. army plane in "Shangri-La" from the 1940s or a tourist's snapshots from the 1990s--become visible in Meiselas's book, through both the contradictions and unexpected continuities of the gathered materials.

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Susan Meiselas, who was born in Maryland in 1948, has worked as a freelance photographer since joining Magnum Photos in 1976. Her images, particularly her coverage of hostilities in Central America during the insurrection, have been published throughout the world. Her many books include Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981) and Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), a project on the 100-year photographic history of Kurdistan. Her most recent book, Pandora's Box (2001), explores a New York S & M club. Meiselas's work has been widely exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions, and her photographs are in the collections of major museums in the United States and Europe. first edition, publication of Steidl Publishers, Göttingen / Germany and International Centre of Photography, New York / USA 2003, design by Bethany Levin, 27X21CM, 2003

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• Editore: Steidl
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 3882439300
• ISBN 13: 9783882439304
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176