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African Image - Sam Haskins
African Image - Sam Haskins
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Sam Haskins published two seminal books in 1967. November Girl was the culminating title in his landmark trilogy; 'Five Girls' (1962), 'Cowboy Kate & other stories' (1964) and 'November Girl (1967). In the same year, as a parting love letter to Africa - he left Johannesburg to set up a studio in London in April 1968 - he published 'African Image'. Andreas Feininger in a private letter to Sam referred to African Image as 'the most graphically powerful photo book' he knew. It is primarily a celebration of sub-Saharan African art, mainly sculpture but includes photographs of nature, landscape, dance and portraiture.
No serious library of post war photography is complete without this title. The photography, printing and layout is an expression of the very best of Sam Haskins' work from that extraordinary decade. To this day it stands as a book design challenge to photographers who decades later are not as brave or as inclined to learn from masters of layout thinking, like Brodovitch.
No serious library of post war photography is complete without this title. The photography, printing and layout is an expression of the very best of Sam Haskins' work from that extraordinary decade. To this day it stands as a book design challenge to photographers who decades later are not as brave or as inclined to learn from masters of layout thinking, like Brodovitch.
