I don’t know what book these bada** photos of African monarchs come from (I found them through ettf), but they looked so amazing I figured they needed to be posted immediately. Check ‘em out:
The monarchs are listed as kings of Benin, South Africa, Nigeria, Nigeria and Ghana respectively. Amazing, right? In fact, I keep telling Will we need to take more PR photos just like this (or at least wear this type of garb on casual Fridays). Anyway, you can see tons more great photos here.
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The full story on these pictures is found at http://www.tamarin.com/king/kindire1.html
Fascinating stuff.
posted by Simon on 12-27-2006 at 9:53 am
hey simon: thanks for the link! fantastic to read more about the story of these pics.
posted by mangesh on 12-27-2006 at 10:37 am
These keep popping up from time to time. I remember first seeing some of them in a magazine I was reading when I was working in a gas station with hardly any customers back in 1988/89. The full page photos in the magazine had extremely rich colors and detail that are sadly lost in the web reproduction.
I bought a similar medium format camera with my gas station salary which I’m still using today.
posted by Storm on 12-27-2006 at 10:49 am