Encounters 30s (10 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Condition: New. NEW COPY, SHIPPED FROM THE UK WITHIN 1 WORKING DAY.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine, unmarked paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. An extensive 423pp overview of a wide spectrum of the arts in the 1930s with numerous attractively illustrated essays. The interior is clean throughout with no inscriptions and there is no creasing to spine. The French flap covers have just a small, faint crease to top front corner tip - visible to only first few pages of text block. Please see five pictures attached for a closer look.…

Softcover, 432 pages; in English; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Softcover. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. 432 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. M10092 9788415691013 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1220.

2013 / 423 pages. Broché. Editions La Fabrica. English Très bon état COMME NEUF .

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid 2012. 8vo. 423 pages. Orig. cover in plastic wrapper. Fine.

Indigenous peoples of Africa photo archive, circa 1920s-1930s, recording Shilluk, Sudanese, Congolese, Nile, and Victoria Falls subjects within the colonial-era climate of expeditionary travel and anthropology. The captions identify locations and peoples across a wide geographic range, including "Shilluks of the Nile, Sudan, Africa," "Pygmies Congo," "Natives White Nile," and "Victoria Falls Africa." Such material was produced during a period when European and American travelers, researchers, missionaries, and press photographers circulated native African culture for audiences shaped by imperial geography, ethnographic classification, and popular fascination with the African continent. Photo archive of 19 silver gelatin photographs, each 3.25" x 5.25", Africa, circa 1920s-1930s. Subjects include Shilluk men posed with bead necklaces, arm ornaments, headbands, and draped cloth; Sudanese girls seated outdoors; men gathered beside dugout canoes on the Nile; a riverside settlement captioned "On the Banks of the Nile"; and a line of men identified as "Stork Men." The Congo section includes a group gathered in a forest clearing and a Western man standing beside Congolese natives under the caption "Pygmies Congo." Additional portraits emphasize hair styling, scarification, beadwork, body ornament, and dress, including captions reading "Fancy Hair Styles Africa," "Beauties of Africa," "Native of Nile," and "Sudanese White Nile." Victoria Falls appears in two views, placing human subjects within a broader travel record of African geography and spectacle. Captions on many of the margins By the early twentieth century, much of Africa had been divided among European colonial powers following the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference, which formalized imperial claims across the continent without African participation. The archive records how African people and places were subjects of anthropological research and interest to Westerners. The captions preserve period terminology, named regions, and the collecting habits of a Western observer moving across Sudan, Congo, the Nile, and Victoria Falls. The presence of the Western man posed with Congolese subjects is especially important, marking the encounter as more than scenic tourism and aligning the group with field travel, research, missionary contact, or journalistic documentation. Mounted on black album leaves with handwritten captions; some prints show fading, edge wear, and light surface abrasion, and the mounts show chipping and losses at corners. Overall in very good condition. Portraits emphasizing scarification, ornament, hairstyles, and bodily presentation were often produced within a colonial framework that treated African communities as subjects of scientific, racial, or geographic classification. At the same time, these scenes now preserve important visual records of cultural practices, regional identity, and daily life during a period of rapid political and social transformation under colonial rule.…