Leni Riefenstahl - Africa - Reviews
"A big, black Mercedez-Benz of a book.... Ideology aside, the pictures are hard to resist, combining all the voyeuristic pleasures of National Geographic-style anthropology with an unequivocal appreciation of the innate grace and symmetry of the human form... Riefenstahl`s photographs preserve a mythic vision of this Eden before the fall, a romantic lost world, captured in images as powerfully seductive as the artist herself."V Magazine, Los AngelesUnited States |
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„In einem monumentalen Bildband wurden die eindrucksvollsten Fotos ihrer Afrika-Projekte gesammelt und mit Kommentaren der Künstlerin versehen. Ein langes Interview, geführt vom britischen Filmhistoriker Kevin Brownlow, gibt interessante Einblicke in Details ihrer Reisen.“GQ, MünchenGermany |
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„TASCHENs monumentaler Bildband Africa enthält Riefenstahls Fotografien der Nuba sowie der Dinka, Shiluk, Massai und anderer Stämme. Leni Riefenstahl bezeichnet ihre Erfahrungen in Afrika als die glücklichsten Momente ihres Lebens. Ihre fotografischen Arbeiten aus dieser Zeit stellen einen Meilenstein der außergewöhnlichen Jahrhundertkarriere der Kamerapionierin dar.“Franky, HofGermany |
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"Corps entremêlés, muscles bandés, scarifications, ce livre est un vibrant hommage à la beauté parfois brutale des tribus du Soudan. Figure controversée et grande artiste, Leni Riefenstahl nous a laissé ces images fascinantes, ultime témoignage d`un monde aujourd`hui disparu. Intermingled bodies, taut muscles, scars: this is a vibrant homage to the sometimes brutal beauty of the ethnic groups of the Sudan. Controversial artist Leni Riefensthal left us these fascinating images of a vanished world."Air France Magazine, ParisFrance |
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Sin duda exelente fotos.
me pregunto donde va a ir el dinero recaudado por la venta de esos libros. a pagar el entierro de la autora, a alguna asociacion de vitimas del nazismo o a la asociacion opuesta? Una lastima que ella no se haya ido en el 44 junto con sus tristemente famosos amigos. Celia Celia BarreiraSpain |
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Magnifique!
Leni Riefensthal est une photographe infiniment plus profonde, et "objective" qu'on ne le pense généralement.Un art au-delà de tout sentimentalisme, le culte de la beauté, pour la vérité.Chaque image est empreinte d'une violence au repos, d'une puissance retenue qui sous-tend les lignes et les surfaces des corps, Ces photographies d'Afrique restent insurpassées, on ne cessera à l'avenir de s'en apercevoir. C'est une des très grandes photographes du XXème siècle. eric hurtadoFrance |
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Wonderful tribute to Leni. A magnificent book for a "now impossible to achieve" photographic material. Trully the best gift to a bibliophile for this season: A GIFT FOR LOOKING AND PRESERVING. A COLORFULL "IN MEMORIAM" FOR LENI RIEFENSTAHL.Federico F. Alcala MéndezMexico |
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"Un magnifique et monumental ouvrage sorti l'année dernière aux éditions TASCHEN"Images magazine, ParisFrance |
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Ms. Riefenstahl never ceases to amaze.
Although she was viseable and famous in a Germany that came to a clamerous end in 1945,Leni Riefenstahl survived every attempt to stifle her creations, including the film "Olympia" ,that is argueably the greatest movie, if not documentary ever made. That everybody who was alive in "her time" is gone is not near the point here. She continues to create because she continues to reach. I thought when I saw a movie about Leni when she was 80 or 90, that the way she kept up her creativeefforts was enough to make you cry. I mean here was this old lady for crying out loud. We saw fleeting glimpses of this Africa work in that movie, mixed in with a tabloid track, amounting to the filmaker asking the question "what was AH really like", six different ways. "Africa" from these thumbs here, is incredible; an astounding journey, the masters hand in a different era and place, unexpected and overwhelming. To me the pictures of Africa have a clear signature of someone whose work is familiar. The discovery is like the opening notes might be of Beethovens 10th Symphony or something. I'm glad Ms. Riefenstahl lived long enough to see Africa published. Taschen should have a layaway plan. Maybe Taschen should have a mass marketing plan. This remarkable work should be made available to the world Geoffrey ArendUnited States |
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"Africa is the crowning achievement of nearly 40 years of picture-taking on the African continent. ..The reproductions, as you'd demand for this sort of money, are nothing less than breathtaking."The Bulletin, SydneyAustralia |
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Leni Riefenstahl - Africa
Taschen, Dr. Angelika (Editor)
Hardcover + Box, 34.5 x 50 cm (13.6 x 19.7 in.), 564 pages $ 4000.00 |
- Clippings (4 items)
Leni's greatest works
Asashi Camera, Japan, November 21, 2005
Asashi Camera, Japan, November 21, 2005
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