Gloire Immortelle Stanley barker The photographer maintains a relationship

The photographer maintains a relationship close to reality by capturing singular moments

First edition first impression hardback (one of 500) in new condition

with Sartre's examples highlighted

25 x 18 cm

Gloire Immortelle Stanley barker The photographer maintains a relationshipFirst edition small format softcover in new condition. In 1968, the West African photographer Rachidi Bissiriou set up his photographic studio, Studio Plaisir, in his hometown of Ktou in Benin, which he operated until its closure in 2004. The timing of this was conspicuous Bissiriou was only 18 and Benin had only declared its independence from French rule eight years earlier, in 1960. Armed with a Yashica twin lens camera, Bissiriou documented these