Riefenstahl, Leni. The Last of the Nuba by Leni Riefenstahl. First U.S. Edition. Untitled (Friends of Photography) emotional weight of the photographs

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Riefenstahl, Leni. The Last of the Nuba by Leni Riefenstahl. First U.S. Edition. Untitled (Friends of Photography) emotional weight of the photographsHarper & Row, 1974. Hardcover in cloth with custom made 4 mil polyester jacket, lacks original dust jacket. Photographs taken by Riefenstahl between 1962 and 1969 of mostly the Mesakin and some of the Korongo, Nuba tribes in the southwest corner of the Nuba mountains in Kordofan of the Sudan in East Africa. At the time, there was no all season road through the region and the Nuba men and women, who generally went out and about without many clothes,