AFRICA

Sinopsis del producto

If Leni Riefenstahl had done nothing but visit Africa and bring back her photographs, her place in History vould be secure. For these pictures are an extraordinary record. Equally extraordinary is her stamina; while she made her first visit in her mid-50s, she undertook her most recent at98. Her love for Africa resulted in three photographic booksbefore this one. Her first expedition should have acted as aversion therapy and put her off for life, for it could hardly have been moredisastrous. In 1956 she set out to make a film about the illegal slave trade ini Africa. While travelling north of Nairobi, the driver of her jeep tried to avoid a tiny dik-dik (dwarf antelope); the vehicle hit a rock and was hurled into the air, crashing down into a dry river bed. Leni went through the windscreen and she was severely injured -her head wound was sewn up with a darning needle- and she was not expected to live. With her incredible resilience she recovered. A fleeting glimpse of Masai warriors carrying spears and wearing tribal costume inspireda fascination which led eventually to her photographic work.Ernest Hemingway described the Masai as «the tallest, best-grown, most splendid people that I had ever seen in Africa.

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RIEFENSTAHL, LENI