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Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
This is plate 8 in Gaspey’s “Book of the World,” which contains 35 full-page, hand-colored engravings. Colored engravings of that period were virtually always colored by hand with water colors.
This uber-rare Daewoo/Media (!) release of "Parasite" (1982) features classic cover art and a movie-review style tout on the back. From the critic Jeong Young-Il, the film gets (roughly) this positive commentary - "Engaging and imaginative horror...A film for women who enjoy horror...The story follows a science experiment gone bad, producing bloodsucking parasites...horror, action, thrills, suspense, and the "happy ending" climax we're looking for (?). However, it doesn't feature in the 3-D process used during its theatrical run. A well-liked cult outing, the film marked Demi Moore's silver-screen debut. The 1997 reissue plays up on the Demi Moore star element, but it too is a rare tape now.
End papers of "The Sheep of Lal Bagh," a 1960s children's book. The star of the story is Ramesh, the sheep who mows in circles and stars to the delight of citizens everywhere. But when the mayor decides Ramesh doesn't mow fast enough, his funky, foliage designs are replaced by a push mower...
The Sheep of Lal Bagh by David Mark. Illustrated by Lionel Kalish.
Published by Parents' Magazine Press; First edition (1967)
"The Faith of Graffiti" is a fab 1970s photography book in which Norman Mailer discusses graffiti as an art form.
"The Faith of Graffiti is a 1974 essay by American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer about New York City's graffiti artists. Mailer's essay appeared in a shorter form in Esquire and as a book with 81 photographs by Jon Naar and design by Mervyn Kurlansky. Through interviews, exploration, and analyses, the essay explores the political and artistic implications of graffiti. The essay was controversial at the time of publication because of its attempt to validate graffiti as an art form by linking it with great artists of the past" - Wikipedia
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” (1872) was published seven years later and is set some six months later than the earlier book. This time Alice enters a fantastic world by stepping through a mirror. “Through the Looking Glass” is not quite as popular as “Wonderland” but it does include celebrated verses such as “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and episodes involving “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” and “Humpty Dumpty.” The book features fifty in-text illustrations by John Tenniel.
Joe Haldeman is uniquely qualified to edit a collection of science-fiction alternatives to war. His novel "The Forever War" (1974), a novel of future warfare, was based on his experience as a foot soldier in Vietnam. It won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science fiction novel. He asked ten science fiction writers to consider the problem of war, and whether there might be a solution to it, and this is what he got:
POUL ANDERSON - Warfare by formalized political assassination.
ISAAC ASIMOV - Peace and freedom through cybernetic regimentation.
BEN BOVA - Surrogate warfare via machine-induced illusion.
GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER - Soldier as actor; actor as soldier.
HARLAN ELLISON - A god-beast to teach a terrible lesson.
JOE HALDEMAN - Privately-sponsored nuclear blackmail.
HARRY HARRISON - Destroy poverty, not people.
DAMON KNIGHT - A visitor from Aquarius gently wrecks the world.
WILLIAM NABORS - Peace as the ultimate venereal disease.
MACK REYNOLDS - Captain Joe Mauser slugs it out for dear old VTT, Inc.
From the book "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). First edition. This is the first book that tells the story of Peter Pan, Wendy and their exploits in Neverland along with the now familiar cast of characters that includes Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and Tiger Lily.
"Das arme Jesulein. Gemalt und geschrieben von Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo
Verlag - Josef Müller, München"
Mother's childhood Christmas storybook.
Written and illustrated by Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
First edition, 1931
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1931. A szegény Kisjézus.
Írta és illusztrálta: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
Mamám gyerekkori karácsonyi mesekönyve
Kiadó: Josef Müllerr Verlag, München. Első kiadás
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
"Since George Washington signed the first patent in 1790, close to four million inventions have been patented in the United States. (Note: the number of U.S. patents as of April 7, 2015 was nine million.) Among the three hundred plus devices described in this book -- and often illustrated from original patent papers -- are:
* An automatic baby-burper that frees the parent of a chore and the baby of gas.
* A parakeet diaper.
* An automatic housepainter that moves along the sides of a building, and a driverless lawn mower that shuts itself off and garages itself.
* An alarm clock that squirts the sleeper in the face.
* A rifle with a curved barrel for firing around corners.
* A gold or platinum trap for catching tapeworms.
* A golf ball that sends out a smoke signal when it lands to help its owner locate it.
* An anti-bicycle-thief device that sends a long, sharp needle into the rear end of anyone making off with the bicycle.
"Some of these 300-odd inventions never got beyond the paper stage. Some became famous, and made their inventors wealthy. But renowned or obscure, simple or complex, straightforward or bizarre, all are fascinating.
"Stacy V. Jones writes The New York Times "Patents of the Week" column. During World War II he was a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. He also worked on public information at the Department of Commerce in the Eisenhower administration.
"A member of the National Press Club since 1941, Mr. Jones has written a monthly page of inventions for "Science Digest" for more than ten years. He has worked as a newspaper reporter in Seattle, Detroit, Washington, D.C. and New York, and as a correspondent for Liberty magazine."
“I was out to teach this girl the folly of hiring strangers to commit larceny for her, but, like most of my screwy ideas, this one exploded in my face.
“When we got to the place there was a man lying dead on the rug and the cops knocking on the front door.
“So we ran, Nina and I. Through the city streets, through mud flats and state parks and wilderness and days and nights we ran.
“Then, in the middle of our private nightmare, I fell in love with this gray-eyed blonde girl who might well be a murderess.
“Worse, she fell in love with me, without knowing how heavy was my burden of guilt.” [From the description on the back cover]
This is plate 18 in Gaspey’s “Book of the World,” which contains 35 full-page, hand-colored engravings. Colored engravings of that period were virtually always colored by hand with water colors.
A marvelous oversized 1940s children's book about animal babies. The content covers well-known animals such as elephants and deer, but also little oddballs like the platypus.
The story unfolds against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Great Britain in Central Asia in the period 1893-98. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India, and features Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. He embarks on a series of great adventures after becoming a disciple of an aged Tibetan Lama and later recruited by the government to carry a message to the head of British intelligence. Thus begin the espionage and spiritual threads of the story, which are destined to collide.
Kim is one of Kipling’s most popular books and, in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it No. 78 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The book was turned into a great film in 1950 starring Errol Flynn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR5qoOSkfAQ
Kipling's blind stamped design of a Viking ship on the front cover, which is present on many of his books from Doubleday, may have been the inspiration for the Viking Press and its own Viking ship logo established in 1925.
Die Baureihe soll mit Elise, Exige und Evora gleich drei Modelle ablösen. Als Konkurrenzmodelle werden unter anderem der Alpine A110 und der Porsche 718 Cayman genannt.
The series is intended to replace three models: Elise, Exige and Evora. The Alpine A110 and the Porsche 718 Cayman are mentioned as competing models.
One of forty-nine photographs in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970).
Naiche (c. 1857-1919) was the final hereditary chief of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians. He was the youngest son of Cochise and, upon the death of his father in 1874, Naiche’s brother Taza became the chief. However, Taza died a few years later in 1876, and the office went to Naiche.
Initially peaceful and co-operative with the whites, from 1881 onwards he was associated with Geronimo in a number of breakouts from the reservation. Naiche traveled to Mexico with Geronimo’s band to avoid forced relocation to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. They surrendered in 1883 but escaped the reservation in 1885, back into Mexico. Officially the leader of the last band of renegade (i.e., free) Apaches in the Southwest, Naiche and Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson Miles in 1886. [Source: Wikipedia]
Quoting Dee Brown (pp. 411-412):
“In the end it was the Big Nose Captain (Lieutenant Charles Gatewood) and two Apache scouts, Martine and Kayitah, who found Geronimo and Naiche hiding out in a canyon of the Sierra Madres. Geronimo laid his rifle down and shook hands with the Big Nose Captain, inquiring calmly about his health. He then asked about matters back in the United States. How were the Chiricahuas fairing? Gatewood told him that the Chiricahuas who surrendered had already been shipped to Florida. If Geronimo would surrender to General Miles, he also would probably be sent to Florida to join them. . .
“And so Geronimo surrendered for the last time . . . Geronimo and his surviving warriors were shipped to Fort Marion, Florida. He found most of his friends dying there in that warm and humid land so unlike the high, dry country of their birth. More than a hundred died of a disease diagnosed as consumption. The government took all their children away from them and sent them to the Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and more than fifty of their children died there.
“Not only were the ‘hostiles’ moved to Florida, but so were many of the ‘friendlies,’ including the scouts . . . Martine and Kayitah who led Lieutenant Gatewood to Geronimo’s hiding place, did not receive the ten ponies promised them for their mission; instead they were shipped to imprisonment in Florida. . . The Chiricahuas were marked for extinction; they had fought too hard to keep their freedom.”
An adorable 1960s haiku book (published in Tokyo) that sings the praises of insects and plants of all kinds. It's illustrated with lovely drawings by late California artist Earl Thollander.
“The Chimes” is Dickens’ second Christmas book, the first being “A Christmas Carol.” It continues his social commentaries on the poor. Structured similarly to “A Christmas Carol,” the main character, Trotty, witnesses an alternative future through a series of visions and ultimately is given a second chance to put things right. “The Chimes” was a bestseller in its day, but has since been eclipsed by “A Christmas Carol.” “The Chimes” is illustrated with thirteen engravings by artists John Leech, John Tenniel, Richard Doyle, Daniel Maclise and Clarkson Stanfield.
In all, Dickens wrote five Christmas books: “A Christmas Carol” (1843), “The Chimes” (though dated 1845 it was released in December 1844), “The Cricket on the Hearth” (1845), “The Battle of Life” (1846), and “The Haunted Man” (1848).
"Das arme Jesulein. Gemalt und geschrieben von Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo
Verlag - Josef Müller, München"
Mother's childhood Christmas storybook.
Written and illustrated by Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
First edition, 1931
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1931. A szegény Kisjézus.
Írta és illusztrálta: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
Mamám gyerekkori karácsonyi mesekönyve
Kiadó: Josef Müllerr Verlag, München. Első kiadás
Foundation and Empire was the second book in Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Decades later, Asimov wrote two further sequel novels and two prequels. Later writers have added authorized tales to the series. The Foundation Series is often regarded as one of Isaac Asimov's best works, along with his Robot series.
The premise of the series is that the mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept of mathematical sociology. Using the laws of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting 30 thousand years before a second great empire arises. Seldon also foresees an alternative where the interregnum will last only one thousand years. To ensure the more favorable outcome, Seldon creates a foundation of talented artisans and engineers at the extreme end of the galaxy, to preserve and expand on humanity's collective knowledge, and thus become the foundation for a new galactic empire. [Source: Wikipedia]
Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
Detail from Brian Wildsmith's version of Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses," illustrated in 1966.
A lovely ornate cover to a 1950s Betty Crocker cook book.
“Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book.”
Published by McGraw Hill, 1950, First Edition.
I had a conversation yesterday at work with one of my clients (patients) College English Professor… We started talking about our fav books. Her fav book is “Catcher in the Rye”… The moment her words came out, I started hyperventilating & was out of air. It was from excitement, but still… But then I cooled down, became more mellow, and forgot that I had a very long, overwhelming day. We live for things we love, even if they put us first into happy anxiety mode. It might be uncomfortable or look abnormal to the outside world, but it’s such a happy moment to realize that even though you are not a teenager or young adult anymore, but there are still things in life that leave you breathless. ♥️
The Life of Henri Christophe, King of Haiti, who at the height of his power built the magnificent palace of Sans Souci, a structure rivaling the pyramids in incredibility. His coronation as King Henri I was in March 1811. Under his policies of corvée, or forced labor, the Kingdom earned revenues from agricultural production, primarily the commodity sugar, but the people resented the system. Unpopular, ill and fearing a coup, he committed suicide on October 8, 1820.
Either Robert Silverberg or Marion Zimmer Bradley is assumed to be the author of this novel. In 1959, publisher William Hamling launched Nightstand Books, an imprint for paperback original sex novels by authors working under house names. From 1961 on, Hamling's primary editor was Earl Kemp. Pseudonymous writers for Kemp/Hamling included Lawrence Block, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harlan Ellison, Evan Hunter, Robert Silverberg and Donald E. Westlake. Hamling was one of the earliest publishers of gay-themed books.
A fun illustration of cave men (and women) by Roy Gerrard.
From the book - Mik's Mammoth.
Written and illustrated by Roy Gerrard
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux; First American Edition (November 1, 1990)
From the back cover:
"You're a detective, I gather." She looked at his card and read it: "Gerard Secret Service. John Church, manager, San Francisco office."
"I'm looking for Mira Whitney," Church said.
"What's the poor soul done now?" Mrs. Taliaferro whispered.
"Well," Church said, "in the first place she seems to have disappeared. In the second place she disappeared with a diamond and emerald ring and a Jaguar belonging to my client."
"I don't think it will do any good to look for her," Mrs. Taliaferro shook her lovely head from side to side. "She has disappeared before and people have looked for her in vain. She's ill, Mr. Church. She belongs in a sanatorium. Each time I hear of her she has done something worse and more unforgivable.
"Just about all," Mrs. Taliaferro said slowly, "that is left for Mira is MURDER . . ."
Set in London of 632 A.F. (“After Ford”), the novel portrays a futuristic society in which the individual is sacrificed for the state, science is used to control and subjugate, and all forms of art and history are outlawed. The novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, classical conditioning and psychological manipulation that combine profoundly to change society. Modern Library ranked “Brave New World” fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. [Source: Wikipedia]
Dust jacket blurb:
"Because she was the way she was -- big, beautiful, and sexy -- there was no way on Earth Shara Drummond could become a professional dancer, in spite of her soaring genius. No way on Earth . . . but the zero-gravity environment of the orbiting Skyfac gave her the chance to create a new dimension in dance. She took that chance, though it meant catering to the whims of a perverse millionaire and being permanently exiled from her home world. And when the aliens appeared, a menacing swarm of lights from the depths of space, it was Shara who saw the only way to communicate with them -- with one last dance that repelled the threat and made her forever one with the void.
"Shara's legacy was a unique school of dance, free of the pull of Earth's gravity, in which her sister Norrey and her embittered lover Charlie explored new frontiers of movement and feeling , , , and unknowingly prepared themselves for an incredible ordeal and an unimaginable destiny.
"Stardance is a major novel of passion and adventure, of biting irony and tenderness, at once briskly entertaining and deeply moving."
From the dust jacket:
"The Bowl of Baal" is a period piece; a nostalgic, half-forgotten survival of the year 1916 when it appeared as a long serial in "All Around" magazine.
Larry O'Brien ventures into the unknown Arabian desert during the days of World War I. His discoveries are epic; an ancient hidden race, troubled by a conflict between two beautiful priestesses; a barbaric tribe of cave dwellers; and a monstrous saurian survival that represents a threat to all.
Robert Ames Bennett's first novel, "Thyra," a thrilling tale of a Viking lost race, was published in 1901. For many years Mr. Bennet was one of the southwest's most prolific authors, turning out historical, adventure, and western fiction.
"In Darkest Africa (1890) is Henry M. Stanley’s own account of his last adventure on the African continent. At the turn of that century, the interior of the African continent was largely unknown to the American and European public. With the accounts of great explorers like Stanley, readers became thrilled by stories of African expeditions and longed to follow in the footsteps of these explorers. In 1888, Stanley led an expedition to come to the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. The two volumes that compose 'In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria' are his account of what happened." [www.biblio.com/in-darkest-africa-by-stanley-henry-m/work/...]
Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is set during the Spanish civil war and tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. The setting of the story is less important than Hemingway's treatment of the themes of love, death, honor and commitment.
In this story by Ezra Keats, Peter is trying hard to learn how to whistle. But sometimes necessity is the best teacher, and Peter learns this when little Willie goes missing. Ezra Keats' charming collages make this a most wonderful mid century story book.
From the back:
It was obvious she had nothing on beneath the old cotton dress and that she didn't care a damn.
Lee was just looking at her. She could see what he wanted. I could feel the collar of my shirt choking me.
"She ought to be against the law," Lee said slowly and shakily.
"She is," I said. "And her father would kill you."
While rare old books often have great monetary value, many modern first editions can also fetch thousands of pounds. And here is one such example, from the Senate House Library’s collection in London. It’s a page from The Carpet People, a comic fantasy novel by 17-year-old Terry Pratchett, published in an edition of 3,000, priced £1.90 (!) in 1971.
But here’s the thing: the illustration here is drawn and hand-coloured by the author himself. What’s more, this is one of only two where additional pen and ink strokes were added by Pratchett.
I didn't know that Pratchett was an illustrator as well as a renowned writer. What a privilege to see, close-up, one of only two books that exist anywhere in the world.
The image is from the 14th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93, by J. W. Powell, Director, Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896. The description which follows summarizes the detailed information in the report.
All the songs are adapted to the simple measure of the dance step. As the song rises and swells the people come singly and in groups from the several tipis, and one after another joins the circle until any number from fifty to five hundred men, women, and children are in the dance. Each song is started in the same manner, first in an undertone while the singers stand still in their places, and then with full voice as they begin to circle around. At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes. At such times the leaders sometimes deliver short addresses or sermons, or relate the recent trance experience of the dancer.
The dancers themselves are careful not to disturb the trance subjects while their souls are in the spirit world. Full Indian dress is worn, with buckskin, paint and feathers. No drum, rattle, or other musical instrument is used in the dance, except sometimes by an individual dancer in imitation of a trance vision. In this respect particularly the Ghost Dance differs from every other Indian dance. With most tribes the dance was performed around a tree or pole planted in the center and variously decorated. On breaking the circle at the end of the dance the performers shake their blankets or shawls in the air, with the idea of driving away all evil influences. All then go down to bathe in the stream, the men in one place and the women in another, before going to their tipis.
“An Indian History of the American West”
The photo on the dust jacket is of a Navaho warrior of the 1860’s by John Gaw Meem. Jacket design by Winston Potter.
From the blurb on the dust jacket flaps:
Traditional texts glory in our nation’s western expansion, the great conquest of the virgin frontier. But how did the original Americans – the Dakota, Nez Perce, Utes, Poncas, Cheyenne, Navaho, Apache, and others – feel about the coming of the white man, the expropriation of their land, the destruction of their way of life? What happened to Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Cochise, Red Cloud, Little Wolf, and Sitting Bull as their people were killed or driven onto reservations during decades of broken promises, oppression, and war?
“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” is a documented account of the systematic plunder of the American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century, battle by battle, massacre by massacre, broken treaty by broken treaty. Here for the first time is their side of the story. We can see their faces, hear their voices as they tried desperately to live in peace and harmony with the white man.
With forty-nine photographs of the great chiefs, their wives and warriors; with the words of the Indians themselves, culled from testimonies and transcripts and previously unpublished writings; with a straight-forward, eloquent, and epic style “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” presents a unique and disturbing history of the American West from the Indian point of view.
Dee Brown has written fifteen books on Western American history. Now, a librarian at the University of Illinois, he has spent years researching and writing this important work.
From the back panel of the dust jacket:
“The whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told.” -- Yellow Wolf of the Nez Perce.
“We never did the white man any harm; we don’t intend to . . . We are willing to be friends with the white man. The buffalo are diminishing fast. The antelope, that were plenty a few years ago, they are now thin . . . When they shall all die we shall be hungry; we shall want something to eat, and we will be compelled to come into the fort. Your young men must not fire at us; whenever they see us they fire, and we fire on them.” -- Tonkahaska (Tall Bull) to General Winfield Scott Hancock
“The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was . . . The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man’s business to divide it . . . I see the whites all over the country gaining wealth, and see their desire to give us lands which are worthless . . . The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the measure of our bodies are the same. Say to us if you can say it, that you were sent by the Creative Power to talk to us. Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit. If I thought you were sent by the Creator I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me. Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who has created it. I claim a right to live on my land, and accord you the privilege to live on yours.” -- Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph) of the Nez Perce.
Although Leni Riefenstahl's documentary film about the 1936 Berlin Olympics, called “Olympia,” has become an acknowledged classic, her book of photographs, “Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf” (Beauty in the Olympic Games), is less known but no less spectacular. Sometimes Riefenstahl relied on poses modeled on the antique Greek ideal… But far more original were her depictions of superbly athletic bodies soaring gracefully through the air and knifing effortlessly through the water. Riefenstahl applied certain devices characteristic of the new German photography – strong diagonals, tight croppings, and bird's-eye and worm's-eye views. No longer was the camera an earthbound witness; it took to the air and the water with the athletes. (Source: William A. Ewing, “The Body”).
Riefenstahl’s film “Olympia” documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics may be viewed on youtube:
Olympia Part 1: Festival of Nations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLnGqMoNXRI
Olympia Part 2: Festival of Beauty
One of forty-nine photographs in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970).
Little Big Man was a fearless and respected warrior who fought against efforts by the United States to take control of the ancestral Sioux lands in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory. He also fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. [Source: Wikipedia]
Quoting Dee Brown (p. 283):
“. . . About three hundred Oglalas who had come in from the Powder River country trotted their ponies down a slope, occasionally firing off rifles. Some were chanting a song in Sioux:
The Black Hills is my land and I love it
And whoever interferes
Will hear this gun.
“An Indian mounted on a gray horse forced his way through the ranks of warriors gathered around the canvas shelter. He was Crazy Horse’s envoy, Little Big Man, stripped for battle and wearing two revolvers belted to his waist. ‘I will kill the first chief who speaks for selling the Black Hills!’ he shouted. He danced his horse across the open space between the commissioners and the chiefs.
“Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses and a group of unofficial Sioux policemen immediately swarmed around Little Big Man and moved him away. The chiefs and the commissioners, however, must have guessed that Little Big Man voiced the feelings of most of the warriors present. General Terry suggested to his fellow commissioners that they board the Army ambulances and return to the safety of Fort Robinson.”