Zagourski (6 results)

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Text in French. Features an introduction by Pierre Loos and text by Ezio Bassani. A monograph on the photographs of Polish military officer and photographer who spent considerable time in the Belgian Congo and other areas of Africa. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. A pleasing copy.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Comme neuf. Dust Jacket Condition: Comme neuf. Edition originale. Paris 2001. 1 Volume/1. -- Comme Neuf -- Reliure éditeur cartonnée sous jaquette illustrée . Format in-4°( 32,7 x 21,8 cm )( 1705 gr ). ------- 237 pages . ************* '' Un exceptionnel reportage photographique fait ressurgir la mémoire des comportements, des cérémonies et des décorations corporelles d'une Afrique des années vingt et trente que l'on peut à juste titre définir comme "disparue". Ces extraordinaires clichés inédits, pris avec une maestria technique qui traduit bien la grande dignité des personnes photographiées, représentent un monument érigé à ce que fut l'Afrique. Kazimir Ostoja Zagourski (1880-1941), né en Pologne, s'enfuit en 1924 au Congo et fut le premier photographe professionnel à voyager au coeur de ce pays, visitant aussi les contrées voisines, le Tchad, le Ruanda, le Burundi, l'Ouganda, le Kenya et l'Afrique du Sud. Durant son long séjour en Afrique, il a pris des centaines de clichés, dont 500, divisés en deux séries consacrées à différentes tribus, qui constituent une enquête historique et ethnographique unique en son genre. Dans un certain sens, le travail de Zagourski représente le premier regard "non-Européen" exempt des exagérations coloniales qui caractérisent les reportages de la même époque. Ses incursions dans les profondeurs du continent africain le conduisirent jusque dans les villages les plus reculés des Massaïs, etc., où il prit des clichés d'un grand intérêt ethnographique. Il photographia, par exemple, les cérémonies (initiation, circoncision, excision, danses masquées, etc.), la grande créativité africaine en matière d'ornement corporel (allant des scarifications aux coiffures, des bijoux aux plateaux labiaux), les vêtements et tous les objets utiles insérés dans leur contexte culturel approprié (instruments de musique, boucliers, tabourets, couteaux, récipients, etc.). '' ************** ref 343 ref 112.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Edition C. Zagourski. Kinshasa. 1928. 3 Envelopes de 9,5x14,5 cm. Com 32 postais de 9x14 cm. Ilustrados com fotografias a preto e branco de Casimir Zagourski. Exemplar com algumas manchas e desgaste superficial nos envelopes. Conjunto de postais que documenta a inauguração de edifícios, caminhos de ferro e estátuas construídas pelo governo colonial do então Congo Belga, nomeadamente uma estátua de Leopoldo II da Bélgica, esculpida por Thomas Vinçotte em 1928. Casimir Zagourski (Zhytomyr, 1883 ? Kinshasa, 1944) foi um célebre fotógrafo polaco, reconhecido pelo seu trabalho documental e antropológico de uma cultura africana que julgava estar em vias de extinção.Após servir na força aérea czarista moveu-se, em 1924, para Léopoldville, então capital do Congo Belga (atual Kinshasa ? República Democrática do Congo), e abriu um estúdio fotográfico. Especializou-se em retratos e recebeu comissões do governo colonial para documentar eventos oficiais e fotografar a inauguração de edifícios e estátuas coloniais. A sua grande paixão, porém, era documentar a cultura dos povos da África Central, que resultou num aclamado portfólio intitulado «L?Afrique qui disparaît!» (A África que se desvanece). Language: Português / Portuguese Location/localizacao: M-13-F-42.

Condition: Very Good. Léopoldville, Casimir Zagourski, [circa 1930s]. Large oblong quarto (357 × 440 mm), containing 201 postcard-format gelatin silver prints, generally corner-mounted four per page. Almost all of the images are on printed postcard stock, with the series title, number, caption (in French), and the photographer's imprint on the verso. Most are accompanied by early manuscript captions in French on the mounts, reproducing or summarising the printed captions; some later images have captions in another hand. Contemporary half snakeskin and marbled boards; covers a little worn; acidic mounts discoloured and occasionally chipped or torn; some photo-corners brittle or defective (with about 20 photographs later tipped in or laid down); photographs occasionally rubbed at the edges, with one creased; a few other minor signs of age and use, but overall, the majority of photographs are in excellent condition. Zagourski's striking photographic record of the peoples of Central Africa was issued in two series, both of which are represented in this album, comprising portraits, scenes of daily life and rituals, costumes and natural scenery. Approximately 150 of the images in this selection depict African peoples, including the Mbaka, Maasai, Tutsi, Komo, Mangbetu, Kuba, and Pende (among others), principally in the Belgian colonies of Congo and Ruanda-Urundi and contiguous territories (such as Kenya and French Equatorial Africa). One confronting group of 11 images features a Mbaka female genital cutting ceremony. The balance of the selection (approximately 50 images) comprises views of animals, indigenous architecture and natural landmarks. Mounted on two leaves at the rear of the album are 14 photographs from other sources, primarily of African artefacts; one printed portrait is mounted earlier in the album. Casimir Ostoja Zagourski (Kazimierz Zagórski, 1883-1944), was a Polish military officer who established a photographic studio at Léopoldville in the 1920s.

Silver gelatin print. Good tonal range and in good condtion.

Twenty-one silver gelatin prints, postcard size. Very good tonal range and in good condition. This collection consists of postcards made from photographs taken by Casimir Zagourski in Africa between 1924 and 1941, which formed a part of his overal project, "L'Afrique Qui Disparait" (Disappearing Africa). The photos are set in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly known as the Belgian Congo), Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo-Brazzaville. The postcards depict a variety of aspects of everyday life in these different settings. Casimir Zagourski, of Polish parentage, was born in Ukraine in 1880. After a military career in the Russian air force and the Polish army, he left Eastern Europe and moved to Africa in 1924, settling in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, Congo, where he began his career as a photographer. During the next seventeen years, until his death in 1941, Zagourski traveled around Central Africa photographing its people, places, and local traditions. At the same time, he established and maintained a store in Leopoldville to sell these images as postcards and large prints. He also exhibited his work at the Paris World's Fair in 1937.