77 - Photography.- Collection of approximately 300 original press photographs by Helmuth Pirath and Gerd Beissert from reportages about Asia, Africa, and Brazil. Circa 1950-60. Format approximately 12 x 18 cm to 18 x 24 cm.

Photography.- Collection of approximately 300 original press photographs by Helmuth Pirath and Gerd Beissert from reportages about Asia, Africa, and Brazil. Circa 1950-60. Format approximately 12 x 18 cm to 18 x 24 cm. The photojournalist Helmuth Pirath and the film director and cameraman Gerd Beissert traveled to the continents of Asia, Africa, and South America in the 1950s for their reportage.] The photographs are predominantly by Pierath and show inhabitants and landscapes from Indonesia, Bali, the German artist Jo König, who lived in Bali and was presumably murdered there in 1953, the Tigris River, canal work and fishing on the Indus, Pakistan, Vietnam, the bird fakir of Hyderabad (with accompanying text bearing a declaration of righteousness stamp), the Brahmaputra River, among others, as well as South Africa (Cape of Good Hope, Kruger National Park), the von Kalckstein family dairy in Njoro/Kenya, Fernando Poo, a visit to the Moroccan freedom fighter Abd el Krim, Tangier, Tunis, the Pyramids of Giza, etc., and finally, the coffee harvest in Brazil. Beissert contributed 20 portrait photographs of West African women and children. The reverse bears a copyright stamp, some with inscriptions or excerpts from the reportage text ( I would soon have become acquainted with these shotguns. During my midday siesta on the Tigris, I was confronted by these... Found by desert sons ...').- Overall dusty and partly with traces of moisture.