Bernatzik: Africa

"In 1925, Austrian ethnographer and photographer Hugo A. Bernatzik traveled to Egypt photographing its people, architecture, and antiquities. He returned to Egypt in 1927, traveling through the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to the Belgian Congo and finally to the west coast of Africa, documenting the inhabitants and their world. His remarkable photographs predate the work of George Rodgers and Leni Riefenstahl. The essence of Africa is captured in these remarkable images of dance sequences, rituals, festivals, spears, shields, and swirling dust."