Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women - Hardcover

Courtney-Clarke, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517597713 ISBN 13: 9780517597712

Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 1996

Synopsis

As she has in her previous books, Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe and African Canvas: The Art of West African Women, Margaret Courtney-Clarke turns her sensitive eye on women whose lives have seldom been observed. Her photos explore the remarkable arts and rapidly changing way of life of the Berber women of North Africa. 230 full-color photos.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Courtney-Clarke has traveled throughout the world as a photographer. Her work has inspired films, including CBC and BBC documentaries, Fashion & Fabric designs, Interior decoration, Architecture and Building. Courtney-Clarke dedicated ten years to building the Ndebele Foundation Center for Women and Children where she trained hundreds of South Africans in the art of their forebears. Her work has been exhibited in Museums and Galleries across four continents. Courtney-Clarke has returned to Africa to photograph the finite environment of a continent in rapid transition. 

From Kirkus Reviews:

The final volume in a trilogy celebrating the extraordinary traditional arts and crafts of African women. Photographer Courtney-Clarke traveled through the rugged mountains and deserts of North Africa to record the distinctive pottery, fabrics, rugs and other woven products, and murals created by Berber women. Journalist Geraldine Brooks contributes a narrative stressing the harsh lives most Berber women face and their remarkable resilience and love of color and craft. The 230 color photographs have a startling intimacy and vigor, portraying intricate designs on house walls and pottery; complex, serene, sophisticated patterns for rugs and fabrics; and the women themselves, weaving, working at kilns, tending families, or pausing for portraits. ($55.00; Oct. 1996; 216 pages; ISBN 0-517-59771-3) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0517597713
• ISBN 13: 9780517597712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192