„The Dark Continent / Africa, the landscape and the people” – illustrated album by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik, published in 1930 by "Atlantis-Verlag” Berlin (First Edition).
The photobook contains 256 pages with 255 original photograph plates (a single picture / page) + 15 pages of introduction. Text for pictures descriptions in four languages: English, French, German and Italian.
Album size: 24 cm x 31 cm (9.5" x 12.2"). Weight: 2 kg.

An outstanding photo book of extraordinary quality showing motives of African architecture, landscape and folk life. It contains 256 exceptionally full-page b/w photogravures of unique quality made by Austrian photographer Hugo Adolf Bernatzik documenting different tribes and cultures, individual portraits and African villages or landscapes.

Hugo Adolf Bernatzik was an Austrian anthropologist and photographer, founder of the concept of alternative anthropology. Preceded by an historical introduction on the different regions of Africa, his photobook is a stunning visual look at Africa and of its various cultures and people.

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