BALI - Album Leichenverbrennung auf Bali
by BLANKE, Willy (photographer)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Wie neu
- Seller
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Amersfoort, Netherlands
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About This Item
Batavia, 1934 An exceptional album in very good condition and batik-cloth binding with strings on BALI.
Privately published by the German photograph Willy BLANKE – Batavia 1934 – with 34 enlarged original gelatin silver prints – sizes from 15.5x10.2 to 13x19.4 cm. Photographs protected by original silk-like sheets.
Cremation of corpses in Bali. Ceremonial service at the cremation of the body of Her Serene Highness the aunt of the prince of GIANJAR Anak Agung Ngurah Agung (Child of the Holy Mountain) 22-28 August 1933. With these sharp photos, the photographer documents all stations of the cremation with processions, towers, bull (etc.). With unusual positions and perspectives (some from a bird's eye view). This photo reportage is written in detail with white ink.
Album was acquired in the Berlin Auction House Jeschke, Greve & Hauff on May 2000.
Willy Blanke was a professional ethnographic photographer in his time. His work has been published in several publications, e.g. Arc of the Ancestors (Indonesian Art from the Jerome L. Joss Collection) by Jerome Feldman, 1994: page 13 figure 4 – Central Nias (1935).
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- Bookseller
- ASIA PACIFIC LIBRARY (NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000635
- Title
- BALI - Album Leichenverbrennung auf Bali
- Author
- BLANKE, Willy (photographer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Wie neu
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Batavia
- Date Published
- 1934
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