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# Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa

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Review: Beautiful back then. - I owned a hard copy of this loverly book when it was first published in the US, and somehow got lost in my most recent move. This book was originally published in France in 2007 and the photography, by Hans Silverstein, is beautiful and more realistic and less posed than more recent work by other photographers. While this area, the lower valley of the Omo River, bordering Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan was one of the wildest and remote places remaining in Africa, that has changed rapidly in the past decade, due to the political unrest and local wars uprooting everything and everyone. Tribes like this are now being manipulated by tourist companies, being promised payment if they paint themselves and pose for tourists. Payment doesn’t always happen however, which just adds to unrest. Even though this is a paperback copy, the color is crisp and I like the matte finish of the photos. For collectors of African culture, this is a wonderful book to own and enjoy.
Review: These photographs are stunning - This is not your typical coffee table book full of big bright exotic photographs. It is big, it is bright, and it is exotic but the images of the young people of the Omo Valley are incredibly unique visions of mankind and nature. These young people paint their faces and bodies with natural pigments derived from the soils and clay of the area. Thus you see reds, yellows, white, brown, and grey. The children devise creative head adornment from fruit, seeds, leaves, branches, seedpods, and even animal skins and horns. The people are beautiful in their innocent nakedness. The use of flowers and leaves and twigs as bodily decoration occurs primarily around the head and as a head covering or decoration, much like a crown of leaves. Many cultures do this including the ancient Greeks or Hawaiian islanders. The reddish black skin of the people acts as a contrast to the off-white, grey, and yellow ochre body paints. The application of the pigments is often roughly drawn with a natural relaxed flair. There is rarely a painted face with the precision of a circus clown. Of course these young people don't go around looking like this every day since they have lives to live tending gardens and livestock. But neither do the images feel false. If someone came to the USA and took pictures of people going to midnight mass on Christmas eve, would we say the pictures were atypical of daily life in America, probably we would. But would we say the images were not part of the American experience and reality, probably not. These images give the same impression. These are young people dressing up with leaves and flowers and body paint, something they don't do every day but something that is indeed part of their culture. This makes the book fascinating and one of the strongest books of photography of Africans that I have ever seen. It is highly recommended.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,771,911 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #46 in Ethiopia & Djibouti Travel Guides #1,355 in Portrait Photography #5,423 in Arts & Photography Criticism |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (236) |
| Dimensions  | 9.9 x 0.7 x 11.2 inches |
| Edition  | 37867th |
| ISBN-10  | 0500288054 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0500288054 |
| Item Weight  | 2.3 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 168 pages |
| Publication date  | April 27, 2009 |
| Publisher  | Thames & Hudson |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful back then.
*by M***A on June 23, 2021*

I owned a hard copy of this loverly book when it was first published in the US, and somehow got lost in my most recent move. This book was originally published in France in 2007 and the photography, by Hans Silverstein, is beautiful and more realistic and less posed than more recent work by other photographers. While this area, the lower valley of the Omo River, bordering Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan was one of the wildest and remote places remaining in Africa, that has changed rapidly in the past decade, due to the political unrest and local wars uprooting everything and everyone. Tribes like this are now being manipulated by tourist companies, being promised payment if they paint themselves and pose for tourists. Payment doesn’t always happen however, which just adds to unrest. Even though this is a paperback copy, the color is crisp and I like the matte finish of the photos. For collectors of African culture, this is a wonderful book to own and enjoy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ These photographs are stunning
*by C***S on November 11, 2010*

This is not your typical coffee table book full of big bright exotic photographs. It is big, it is bright, and it is exotic but the images of the young people of the Omo Valley are incredibly unique visions of mankind and nature. These young people paint their faces and bodies with natural pigments derived from the soils and clay of the area. Thus you see reds, yellows, white, brown, and grey. The children devise creative head adornment from fruit, seeds, leaves, branches, seedpods, and even animal skins and horns. The people are beautiful in their innocent nakedness. The use of flowers and leaves and twigs as bodily decoration occurs primarily around the head and as a head covering or decoration, much like a crown of leaves. Many cultures do this including the ancient Greeks or Hawaiian islanders. The reddish black skin of the people acts as a contrast to the off-white, grey, and yellow ochre body paints. The application of the pigments is often roughly drawn with a natural relaxed flair. There is rarely a painted face with the precision of a circus clown. Of course these young people don't go around looking like this every day since they have lives to live tending gardens and livestock. But neither do the images feel false. If someone came to the USA and took pictures of people going to midnight mass on Christmas eve, would we say the pictures were atypical of daily life in America, probably we would. But would we say the images were not part of the American experience and reality, probably not. These images give the same impression. These are young people dressing up with leaves and flowers and body paint, something they don't do every day but something that is indeed part of their culture. This makes the book fascinating and one of the strongest books of photography of Africans that I have ever seen. It is highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Luscious photography
*by M***. on July 24, 2025*

Book arrived in pristine condition, even better than I expected.

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