Over the course of numerous voyages to the wilds of Africaas Omo Valley, Hans Silvester became fascinated by the beauty of the Surma, Mursi, Hamer and Kurma tribes, who share a taste for body painting and extravagant decorations borrowed from nature. For these people, flesh becomes a raw material on which wonderfully inventive decorative fantasties can be played out. Hans Silvesteras astonishing photographs capture these accoutrements to form a parade of African fashion that is as rich as it is ephemeral. This book is an elegy to nature, revealed by the Omo people in all its beauty and extravagance.
- ISBN10 0500543585
- ISBN13 9780500543580
- Publish Date 10 March 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 168
- Language English