PIERRE VERGER (1902-1996)
First reportage in Black Africa
Togo: Porto Seguro, Lomé, Palimé, a fetishist, Bassari warrior, Bapuré, Niamtougou, Konkomba warrior, Interior of the king of a Togolese tribe, woman's headdress, market scenes (natives in the central region), fisherman, Nov. 1935 - March 1936. 42 vintage silver prints, captioned in pencil on back, copyright, stamps "PIERRE VERGER" and "SERVICE INTERCOLONIAL D'INFORMATION & DE DOCUMENTATION 11 Rue Tronchet, PARIS-8e" on back. 28.4 x 21.2 cm to 29.9 x 31 cm
Photographs from this reportage were shown in the Photography 1839-1937 exhibition at MoMA in New York in 1937.
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