![]() It is up to them to decide whether or not, and in what manner, they want to be photographed, not some outsider who believes their culture should be left intact. ![]() But I do know it is up to the people being photographed to decide that. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so.ĭoes photographing these people and the attention that ensues change them? Probably. The viewer who is open minded enough to appreciate it is gifted with an insight into the beauty of a people he/she might not have known even existed. To page through this book is to be transported momentarily into a world of sensual beauty that few of us even dare to imagine exists. But none of it obscures or in any way detracts from the undeniable truth that these are some of the most beautiful, creative, and uniquely adorned people in the world. That in fact the attention these people are getting from tourists and photographers is encouraging them to show off and thus changing their cultural practices from what they were in isolation. The reviewer is concerned that this collection of photographs does not represent the daily lives and cultural practices of the people it represents. ![]() ![]() The sole review here trashing this beautiful book struck me as so unfair that I feel compelled to write a rebuttal. I do not (yet) own this book, but I spent half an hour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art gift shop recently in an absolute trance paging through it. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |