Product Description: Life with the Nuba: Leni Riefenstahl's remarkable Africa oeuvre   "If Leni Riefenstahl had done nothing but visit Africa and bring back her photographs, her place in history would be secure." -Kevin Brownlow, from the introduction The first female film director to attract international acclaim, Leni Riefenstahl began frequent trips to Africa in her early sixties, where she worked on various film and photography projects...read more

Leni Riefenstahl's favorite destination was in Sudan, where she lived with, and photographed the Nuba tribes people. Her images of the Nuba, as well as of the Dinka, Shilluk, Masai, and other tribes, are gathered in this book. It includes an interview by Kevin Brownlow, a bibliography, and a biography section.

Photographs of the Nuba people of Kau portray the traditions--including knife fights, dances of love, and body painting--of a primitive tribe whose existence is threatened by the advance of industrial civilization

Product Description: This is a photographic monograph on the life of the people of Kau. Leni Riefenstahl spent 16 weeks with the Nuba of Kau in 1975. These people, known as the "South East Nuba", live only 100 miles away from the Mesakin Nuba. Yet, they speak another language, follow different customs, and are very different in character and temperament...read more

Product Description: Evola articulates the close relationship between the physical rigors of mountain climbing and the ascent of the initiate toward self-transcendence. Julius Evola, a leading exponent of esoteric thought, was also an ardent mountain climber who personally scaled the peaks of the Tyrols, Alps, and Dolomites...read more

First published in 1973 and long since out of print, a classic photo essay about life among Africa's Nuba tribe, by one of the century's foremost film directors, is presented in an impressive full-color gift edition.

The controversial filmmaker looks back at her life and career, her relationship with Hitler, and her work as a dancer, actress, film director, and professional photographer

Amazon.com Review: Leni Riefenstahl was an incredibly gifted filmmaker, regardless of her politics. Fortunately, politics didn't obscure the perfection of the film "Olympia", made at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, from which these stark, beautiful black-and-white photographs were made...read more