Age-crusted amphorae, like jumbled tombstones, mark the weedy grave of a Greek ship that sailed in the days of Alexander the Great. Oldest merchantman yet recovered, she antedates by two centuries the Greek wine ship Jacques-Yves Cousteau excavated off Grand Congloué rock near Marseilles, France. Photo by Michael L. Katzev.
From “Men, ships, and the sea” by Alan Villiers, 1978.
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The free people, 1969. Photo by Anders Holmquist.
“The Free People is a photo essay about a new generation of young people and the quality of openness and sharing that permeates their life. It is a book about their music, their work, their mobility, what they read and what they buy, their styles, about why they are free people and how they live.
Much has been made of the Woodstock Music Festival. This is not a book about that festival; it is a book about the people who went there.”
From “The free people” by Peter Marin.
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Maumere, Flores, 1988. Photo by Lionel Pozzoli.
“A snorkeler with a whale shark, Rhincodon typus. These harmless, krill-feeding giants can be found seasonally at some sites in Indonesia.”
From “Underwater Indonesia” by Kal Müller, 1994.
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Arnhem Land. Photo by P. Tweedie.
Jennifer Isaacs is widely known to Aboriginal people throughout Australia for her pioneering work in establishing Aboriginal cultural programs. From 1968 to 1973 as the first Aboriginal Arts research officer of the Australia Council she travelled extensively throughout Australia consulting Aboriginal people about the programs they wished to be set up, both traditional and innovative…
…The material in this book includes individual contributions from over 40 Aboriginal storytellers, as well as stories gathered from numerous tribal groups of northern, central and western Australia, where the rituals remain strong. In the south, where the traditional Aboriginal life style has disappeared with European contact, the source of the material has been stories recorded earlier this century.“
From "Australian dreaming: 40,000 years of Aboriginal history” by Jennifer Isaacs, 1979.
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An eagle ray, flapping its huge fins, “flies” through the water like a great bird of prey.
From “The world we live in” by Jane Werner Watson, 1969.
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Native plywood surfing, Barbados, 1984. No quite a barn door, but close. Photo by David Digirolamo.
From “The Book of waves: form and beauty on the ocean”, 1988.
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Coconut palms and a native hut of coconut leaves, 1926.
From “The Indian culture in individual representations” by Georg Muller.
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Dancing tongues of a campfire brighten a cave at the head of The Narrows. Generations of hikers and explorers have sheltered in the grotto; floodwaters do not reach its sandy floor. Photo by Sam Abell.
From “The New America’s wonderlands”, 1975.
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Samaipata’s rattlesnakes rise dramatically skyward in this low-angle photo. Rivulets of water trickle down the three diamondback rows from the ceremonial pool above. (International Explorers Society).
From “Megagods: the mysterious giants of our past” by Jim Woodman, 1987.
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Stone chalice holds a golden dram at Shinumo Wash in Marble Canyon, once a national monument but now part of Grand Canyon National Park. Enfolded by marble-smooth limestone walls, climbers may find a more intimate grandeur here than farther downstream: narrow rapids, a ferned oasis, an archeological ruin.
Photo by Walter Meayers Edwards.
From “The New America’s wonderlands”, 1975.
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A submarine journey to the Roman Era: an amphora is sent to the surface by balloon.
From “Diving into the past; archaeology under water” by Hanns-Wolf Rackl, 1968.
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In the forest. A girl in the Palawan society stops for a portrait, Palawan, Philippines.
“Pierre de Vallombreuse follows the life of a small community of the Palawan ethnic group, in the south of the Philippines for more then 30 years. Once isolated, The Valley and its inhabitants, whose language he speaks, have seen the outside world invite themselves into their lives creating profound upheavals…”
Photo by Pierre de Vallombreuse.
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Los Uros: Balsero en el Lago Titicaca (barque en jonc Totora), Bolivia, 1962.
From “Balseros del Titicaca”.
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Drawing Toddy, Zanzíbar, 1940s.
Author unknown.
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Fête des baleines à Point Barrow Alaska, 1923. Photo by Leo Hansen (1888-1962).
“The Nalukataq consists of the dancer maintaining the most graceful position when propelled into the air from a trampoline.”
“The catalog Inuit features early twentieth-century portraits from the archive of the writer-journalist Victor Forbin: half of the 350 photographs they had bought in 2019, on a whim, from Yves Bouger, a well-known gallery owner and bookseller based in Granville. They originally belonged to Victor Forbin (1864–1947), who thought himself an “adventurer,” and who assembled a personal iconography to illustrate his articles, translations, and books (his first novel, Les Fiancées du Soleil, came out in 1923).
When they were confronted with “this vanished world,” the Jacquiers had known nothing about the Arctic or about polar expeditions, such as the Canadian Arctic Expedition led by the ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1963), between 1913 and 1918, and the 5th Thule Expedition led by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933) between 1921 and 1925. Although they could see at once that, by their very subject, the photographs were of great value, and not just sentimental, they were yet to document their discovery. This they did during the first months of lockdown, consulting online libraries and Northern museums, moved by these portraits of the Inuit, and the “reciprocal gaze” exchanged between the photographed and the photographer. “It is true, we were touched by this gaze devoid of exoticism,” emphasized Philippe Jacquier, “by the presence of the Inuit, their power in the endless white landscapes. These photos are more than a century old, and yet they seem so close… Those who took them understood that photography is an indispensable tool.”
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