Best Photo Book
One remarkable woman, five remarkable careers: Leni Riefenstahl is the
exception to the rule. From dancer to actress to film-maker to
photographer to diver, she has excelled in each field and is one of the
most important and controversial artists of the 20th century. Her
contributions to the art and technique of film-making were vast, most
notably in her epochal film "Olympia" (1938). Critically acclaimed
during the 1930's for her work under the Hitler administration and
harshly criticized after the war, Riefenstahl surged on, completing the
famous "Tiefland" in 1954. In the 1960s and 70s she traveled to Africa
and extensively photographed East Africa and the Nuba tribes in Sudan,
publishing three books. Ready for yet another change, she took up
deep-sea diving at the age of 71, beginning a new chapter as an
underwater photographer.Though she has attracted much attention
throughout her life and has been the subject of many books, articles,
and films, Leni Riefenstahl Five Lives is the first book to showcase her
entire career in pictures. Produced in collaboration with Riefenstahl
herself, the book includes her most famous images as well as many
previously unpublished pictures from her private archives.
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