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Phyllis Galembo: Maske [Hardcover]
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- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Chris Boot (September 30, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1905712170
- ISBN-13: 978-1905712175
Product Dimensions:
8.7 x 0.9 x 9.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review:4.5 out of 5 stars style="margin-left:-3px">See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"If there is any book out there right now that truly justifies why art and photo books still exist, it's got to be Phyllis Galembo's Maske. I love this book!" --D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian
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Traditionally autumn in many countries celebrates All Hallows' Eve, a day that has become so commercial that it almost outdoes Christmas. But go to the source, the beginnings of this celebration, and there we find a connection with the spirits - those vague images that plead understanding or even cognizance.Phyllis Galembo, likely more than any investigator artist, has spent considerable time seeking knowledge of the spirit rituals of both Africa and the Caribbean, places where people are more sensitive to the things they cannot explain but feel the need to placate or honor. This beautifully designed book features over one hundred highly color-saturated photographs of the costumes created and worn by the peoples of various cultures. Organized in chapters according to regional traditions and customs, Galembo has gained permission from the people to make these extraordinary photographs.There is no sense of mocking or of inappropriate marketing of these costumed people: Galembo has been gathering these images for over 25 years and during that time she has become a confidant, an artist with the ability to transmit trust to the people she visits and coaxes into being photographed. The costumes are highly creative and richly colorful - for lack of a better comparison think Tim Burton or Federico Fellini or Julie Taymor - and incorporate the entire boy in the costume paraphernalia. The costumes, by chapter, are from Nigeria, Haiti, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin. The materials of the costumes vary form natural products, built from wood accents, body paint, richly colorful fabric - most anything available to create these otherworldly characters.The title of the book is MASKE which would indicate that these are costumes for carnivals or masquerades, but Galembo lets us see more deeply into the origins of these costumes and form there we can postulate the meaning of each of the elements that make these costumes more than simply entertainment. These costumed people appear to honor something most of us have not even considered - gods of fertility, abundance, the dead, etc. From this book we can either find fascination with a way of thinking we know little - or we can approach this estimable photographs as the works of art they most assuredly are. Grady Harp, October 11
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