Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 95

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AFRICA.) ELISOFON, ELIOT. Series of six large gelatin silver print photographs. Five are of the people of Mali and one is the king of the Kuba people of today's Democratic Republic of Congo. Five of the six are 19-1/2 x 13-1/2, one is 19-3/8 x 15-1/2 inches, each is on the original photographer's heavy cardboard mount; the tips of a few of the latter are bumped, the photographs are in very good condition. should be seen Africa, 1960's
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Six strikingly beautiful photographs by Eliot Elisofon. Five of them show the Dogon people of Mali in an elaborate dance ceremony; with one image showing a carver preparing a ceremonial mask. One image shows the Kuba King, in Mushenge Vilage, resplendent in a royal suit made from thousands of cowrie shells and beads, trimmed with leopard skin; on either side of him are the royal drummers. Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, whose work appeared in numerous magazines, including National Geographic and Life Magazine. Some of his best known works are his photo essays on Africa. His archives are located at the Smithsonian. One of the images of the dancers was used in an essay on Elisofon for Tribal Arts Magazine for Autumn, 1974.