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L'Afrique qui Disparait. by CASIMIR ZAGOURSKI

Creator: CASIMIR ZAGOURSKI
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
ZAGOURSKI, CASIMIR.
L'Afrique qui Disparait.
Stock Code 77636
1930
£1,750
This collection consists of postcards made from photographs taken by Casimir Zagourski in Africa between 1924 and 1941, which formed a part of his overal project, 'L'Afrique Qui Disparait' (Disappearing Africa). The photos are set in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly known as the Belgian Congo), Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo-Brazzaville. The postcards depict a variety of aspects of everyday life in these different settings.

Casimir Zagourski, of Polish parentage, was born in Ukraine in 1880. After a military career in the Russian air force and the Polish army, he left Eastern Europe and moved to Africa in 1924, settling in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa, Congo, where he began his career as a photographer. During the next seventeen years, until his death in 1941, Zagourski traveled around Central Africa photographing its people, places, and local traditions. At the same time, he established maintained a store in Leopoldville to sell these images as postcards and large prints. He also exhibited his work at the Paris World's Fair in 1937.

Description
Twenty-one silver gelatin prints, postcard size. Very good tonal range and in good condition.

Bibliography
Stock ID:77636

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1920-1949
Styles / Movements:	Modernism
Dealer Reference #:	77636
Incollect Reference #:	618251

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