Beckwith, Carol, 1945-
Beckwith, Carol
Beckwith, Carol, 1945-...., photographe
Carol Beckwith
Carol Beckwith American explorer and photographer
VIAF ID: 112279432 (Personal)
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Works
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An Afar woman, a nomad from the Danakil Desert of Ethiopia, wears amber jewelry and blue veils, dyed with indigo. She exudes a fierce beauty that reflects the challenge of surviving in one of the harshest environments in the world. Traditionally, an Afar warrior who wanted to marry a young girl had to present her with the testicles of his enemy | |
African ark : peoples of the Horn | |
African ceremonies | |
Afrika! Afrika! das magische Zirkusereignis vom Kontinent des Staunens | |
Afrika Kulte, Feste, Rituale | |
The Ashanti Royal Sword Bearer from Ghana wears an eagle-feathered headdress featuring golden ram horns at the Silver Jubilee of the Ashanti King. His role is to protect the King at all ceremonies, warding off evil and absorbing any physical threats to his master. His ritual regalia is believed to protect not only the souls of the royal court but the entire Ashanti nation | |
At the annual Gerewol festival, Wodaabe male charm dancers from Niger perform the competitive Yaake dance | |
The banks of the Omo River in Ethiopia are rich in iron ore deposits and provide a local source of ocher pigment for body painting. Pastoralists by tradition, the Karo people traverse the river daily in dugout canoes to cultivate crops of maize and millet, which supplement their milk diet | |
A chief from the Royal Kuba Kingdom wears a skirt 6 to 9 feet in length, made of hand-woven, palm-fiber cloth panels, gathered around the hips and folded over a belt. With its embroidered overlay and lavish display of palm-fiber tassels, Kuba cloth has been esteemed since the 15th century, and so highly valued that it was once used as currency across much of Central Africa | |
Dassanech men and women walk together in procession around their village during the Dimi ceremony | |
Dinka | |
A Dinka girl from a wealthy family in South Sudan wears a beaded corset to indicate her bride price in cattle | |
Dinka : legendary cattle keepers of Sudan | |
Ethiopia (American University in Cairo Press) | |
Ethiopia : the living churches of an ancient kingdom | |
Faces of Africa : thirty years of photography | |
Karo : cuerpos pintados | |
Krobo girls dance at a ceremony marking their initiation into womanhood. This ceremonial passage celebrates their multiple achievements and skills as wives and mothers, trained in the ways of the hearth | |
Kroz objektiv : National Geographic - najljepše fotografije | |
Lamu : Kenya's enchanted island | |
Ma vie de guerrier Masai | |
Maasai | |
A masked dancer emerges from the sacred forest to greet the Kuba Royal Family. The mask is said to represent the strength and grandeur of the Kuba, one of the most enduring living kingdoms of Africa | |
Massai | |
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Nijiēru no yūbokumin wādabe | |
Nomads of Niger | |
The Oba, or king, of the Benin Royal Kingdom attends the annual Igue ceremony, which reaffirms the power of the ancient kingdom, and ritually ensures its ongoing prosperity and well-being. Around the king are his royal attendants, including the chief priest, who stands immediately to the right of his sovereign | |
On the day of her marriage, a Himba bride from Namibia is surrounded by female relatives who apply a mixture of ocher, aromatic herbs and butterfat to her skin and hide clothing. She wears the traditional Ekori wedding headdress given to her by her mother as a symbol of her status and the treasured conch shell pendant also passed from mother to daughter | |
Painted bodies African body painting, tattoos and scarification | |
Passages | |
Peintures sur le corps | |
Peuples de la Corne d'Afrique | |
Surma men from Ethiopia gather together for one of the wildest sports on the continent, the Donga stick fight. It's designed to settle personal vendettas, prove masculinity and, above all, win wives. There are no rules to the game except that a man must not kill his opponent. If he does, he and his family will be banished for life from the village | |
Surma : pintura corporal | |
A Swahili woman from Kenya decorates her hands and feet with designs made from henna, a dye derived from a powdered leaf mixed with water and the juice of unripe lemons | |
To mark his ritual passage from warrior to elder, a Maasai coats his body with a mixture of water and white chalk dug from sources believed to be sacred. With his fingers, he draws decorative patterns, exposing the dark skin below. When he returns home, he must be unrecognizable, especially to his mother. Out of the Eunoto ritual comes anonymity, the basis for his symbolic transition to a new stage of life | |
traditional cultures Africa. Himba, Hamar and Other Peoples | |
A Turkana bride from Kenya wears a multi-layered beaded necklace with three back pendants indicating her availability for marriage. A Turkana man says of his bride, "It's the things a woman wears that makes her beautiful." This bride carries a fish from Lake Turkana on her head to the family meal | |
Unbekanntes Afrika Völker und Kulturen zwischen Hochland, Wüste und Ozean am Horn von Afrika | |
Visages d'Afrique trente ans de photographie | |
While Wodaabe men flaunt their beauty in the Yaake charm dance, each attempting to appear the most beguiling, an elder woman in a yellow veil offers both praise and mockery | |
Wodaabe | |
ニジェールの遊牧民「ワーダベ」 |