#Carol Beckwith

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Dinka children by the fireside, South Sudan, 2013 - by Carol Beckwith (1945), American & Angela Fisher, Australian

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Carol Beckwith e Angela Fisher: Home dinca, do Sudán do Sul

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Elephant mask, Cameroon; photo by Carol Beckwith

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Africa

30 anni di grandi reportage National Geographic

Angela Fischer, Carol Beckwith

National Geographic/White Star, Vercelli 2006, 304 pagine, 22,5x24,5cm, ISBN 978-99-7844-456-6

euro 25,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Un'edizione di smagliante bellezza ci porta nel cuore pulsante del Continente Nero a contatto con culture millenarie, tuttora legate allo stile di vita tradizionale eppure diversissime l'una dall'altra... Un viaggio attraverso l'Africa, dal Niger all'Etiopia, dalla Namibia al Kenya, alla ricerca delle nostre radici. Grandi, meravigliosi ritratti a tutta pagina restituiscono tutta la bellezza e la fierezza dei popoli africani, in un libro fotografico dalla bellezza mozzafiato

25/06/24

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James Carroll Beckwith The Old Pier Glass ca. 1900

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Bwa dancer, Burkina-Faso, by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

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Rashaida Bride with veil by Photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

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Harvest ceremony, Burkina Faso, 2014. Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher.

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Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher — Surma (woman with painted eye-mask)

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An Adioukrou queen mother is bedecked in gold jewelry.” Photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, writing in the book Faces of Africa.

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back in high-school, I only have 4 friends and sometimes all of us go to the library during our breaks our after school where we pick a random book and read silently for like an hour or couple. the librarian noticed us why do we go to the library when most of the students go to computer shops to play computer games or eat somewhere. we said we like the quiet and we get to bond with each other by expanding our vocabulary and teaching it to each other

she apparently liked what we said and beamed on us. she asked to follow her. when we walked behind her, she led us to this door at the corner of the library which is not seen or must be hidden bc there are alot of tall shelves blocking it leaving just a small space to access the door. she unlocked with a key and then she said "most of the books here are either new or very old or just hands off to the students. it's all yours. just take care of them" and our jaws dropped on the floor as we cannot believe what we're seeing.

hunger games was very in that time and they've got that in our library, might be newly bought. my eyes caught the roald dahl collection, mitch albom, john green, and ofc the harry potter books. hp book 1 was the first one I removed from the shelf. I was already reading hp books then but I only got to finish up to the 3rd book. so now, I and all of my friends picked our new special book from the special room (feels like hogwarts' library's restricted section).

for 2 weeks, I re-read the 1-3 hp books at the library. the librarian became our friend too asking us about what's happening in the stories we're reading or what new words we've learned. I think she noticed that I was reading the harry potter books that she followed me in the room when j was about to pick up the 4th one. she told me that if I can take care of the books, she'd allow me to take it home and borrow it. ofc, it wouldn't be on the library records bc these section is off limits to students. you can imagine how I was so ecstatic on what I just heard. I keep saying "really?" multiple times at her face bc I was not believing what she said. we were laughing and smiling as she packed the whole harry potter book set (yes the box one with the original art cover) with paper bags so it wouldnt be obvious it was books or that I borrowed that many books from the library. know that some library will only allow you to borrow up to 3 books (based on exp) so security can get suspicious if you carry more than that.

it was a golden time of mine being a bookworm and a library-goer. following through the next years of my life as a high school student, the library became my room of solitude where I can attain peace and quiet from all the pressure of being a top student or befriending fellow students who aren't really understanding of who I am. I've read a lot of books from the library. One of the rarest book that I've found was one written by Carol Beckwith (I might have butchered the spelling). It's about afterlife from a perspective of a policeman who got to experience it firsthand. It's one of my favorites. Unfortunately, it's so rare even Amazon don't have it anymore.

Anyway, just go to the library. You will read stories and make your own story(ies). You'll never know, if you don't go.

reject booktok culture. go to the library and get a weird little novel you’ve never heard of in your life and read it all in 2 days like god intended.

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Muslim Afar Girl, Djibouti

Sebere Seko, a bride from the family of the Sultan of Tadjourah enhances her beauty with some of the most exotic gold jewelry found in The Horn of Africa. Being in the dhow sea trade, her father brings her jewelry from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan and India

By Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher

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Harvest ceremony, Burkina Faso, 2014. Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher.