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Hugo Bernatzik (1897 - 1953)
Sudan. Nuer... - Lot 57 - Ader
Hugo Bernatzik (1897 - 1953)
Sudan. Nuer people, 1927.
Bahr el Zeraf. Warriors. Nuer man's headdress. Weapon. Scarifications. Tribal insignia on the forehead. Jewellery. Ornaments. Nuer man in the marshes whose body is covered with wood ash. Typical Nuer resting position. Hair removal. Nudity is part of the Nuer customs and habits.
20 silver prints from the period. Some highlights and indications of cropping on some prints. Numerous stamps of the photographer "Copyright - Hugo Adolf Bernatzik - Vienna - Austria" and "Copyright by Dr. Hugo A. Bernatzik - Wien", indications of cropping, negative numbers, handwritten annotations and typed captions on labels stuck to the back.
Sizes: from 11.4 x 8.4 to 19.6 x 14.4 cm
Hugo Bernatzik is an Austrian anthropologist and photographer, founder of the concept of alternative anthropology, which is interested in the weakening of indigenous cultures through contact with exogenous elements. He has produced a substantial body of photographic work during numerous trips and expeditions in Espain (1924), Egypt and Somalia (1925), in Soudan (1927), Portuguese Guinea (1930-1931), British Solomon Islands, British New Guinea, Bali (1932-1933), Burma, Thailand and Indochina (1936-1937). Hugo Bernatzik wanted to capture the cultural specificities of the indigenous peoples caught up in colonization, by documenting their traditional ways of life. As an independent ethnologist, and not a mandated official, he freely expressed his opposition to the local colonial authorities and financed his travels himself, through writing, publishing his photographs or giving lectures. All his negatives disappeared during the Second GWorld War, but a large number of his prints are now in the collections of theInstitut photographique Bonartes in Vienna. When he died in 1953, he left 47 albums containing some 16,000 contact sheets. This collection represents the most important private archive ofHugo Bernatzik's work.
Some publications of Hugo Bernatzik :
- Zwischen Weissem Nil und Belgisch-KongoZwischen Weissem Nil und Belgisch-Kongo, L. W. Seidel & Sohn, Vienna, 1929 The Dark Continent, Afrika, London, The Studio Ltd, 1931. - Äthiopen des Westens. Portugiesisch Guinea, 2 vols. with Bernhard Struck, L.W. Seidel & Sohn, Vienna, 1933. Südsee. Travels in the South SeaSüdsee: Travels in the South Sea, London, Constable & Co, 1935. Gari-Gari, The Call of the African WildernessLondon, Constabel & Co. 1936 - Owa RahaOwa Raha, Wien-Leipzig-Olten, Bernina Verlag, 1936 - Afrika. Handbuch der angewandten VölkerkundeHandbuch der angewandten Völkerkunde , Innsbruck, Wagner'schen Univ. - Buchdruckerei, 1947.
Bibliography :
Kevin Conru, Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Margarete Loke, Christina Angela Thomas, Alison Nordström, Jacques Ivanoff, Bernatzik: South Seas. Africa. South East Asia, 3 volumesMilan, 5 continents, 2002-2003.
Hugo Bernatzik (1897-1953)
Sudan. Nuer people, 1927.
Bahr el Zeraf. Warriors. Nuer man's headdress. Weapon. Scarifications. Tribal insignia on the forehead. Jewellery. Ornaments. Nuer man in the marshes whose body is covered with wood ash. Typical Nuer resting position. Hair removal. Nudity is part of the Nuer customs and traditions.
20 vintage gelatin si
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