The final volume in the three-part Hugo Bernatzik series, this book explores the Austrian photographer's compelling work in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. While visiting these regions, Bernatzik was at the height of his powers in terms of technique and artistry from an anthropological perspective. The photographs are among the first to show the Ahka and Meau, hill people of northern Siam. These stark black-and-white images capture the human condition and present humanity in a pure light. Southeast Asia is revealed through Bernatzik's eyes, with all its inherent grace and lyrical beauty.
About the Author
Kevin Conru is the coauthor of Bernatzik: South Africa and The Art of Southeast Africa. He started the tribal art and antiquities departments at Bonhams Auctioneers. Jacques Ivanoff is the author of Moken: Sea-Gypsies of the Andaman Sea, The Moken Boat Symbolic Technology, and Rings of Coral: Moken Folktales. Alison Nordstrom is the executive director of the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Christina Thomas is a translator for international and European organizations. Hugo A. Bernatzik was a travel writer, photographer, and one of the most famous scholars of ethnology in the German-speaking world prior to World War II. He became a professor at the University of Graz in 1939, where he founded the discipline of applied ethnology. Among his published English-language works are The Dark Continent: Africa, the Landscape and the People and Sudsee: Travels in the South Seas.
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