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Description
(Text)
Das Buch erschließt den arabischen Golf um 1900 mit dem Blick des Reisenden Hermann Burchardt - eines Mannes ohne politischen Auftrag und wirtschaftliche Interessen, der die fremde Lebenswirklichkeit weder kritisieren noch verändern, sondern davon "ein Bild abnehmen" wollte.
(Text)
The book explores the Arabian Gulf around 1900 through the eyes of Hermann Burchardt, a man without political mission and no economical interests, who rather than criticising or trying to change the local reality, merely intended 'to take up a picture':
The book sets the sources in a historical perspective of traveling and photography, and of the political situation and European presence. But the images' reason to exist is grounded less in those occidental relationships than in the Arabian institution of hospitality. Hermann Burchardt traveled as a guest and followed the principles of generosity and reciprocity. His photographs document the 'here and now' of their respective environments. And although Buchardt was aware of the intentions of international politics and economics, his images show places and landscapes in which Europeans play only a minor role. Burchardt was searching for diversity of othernes.
(Author portrait)
Annegret Nippa, geboren 1948, war wissenschaftliche Angestellte in zahlreichen Instituten und Museen, u.a. in Zürich, Bern und Berlin. Von 1997 bis 2003 war sie Direktorin des staatlichen Museums für Völkerkunde in Dresden und lehrt heute am Institut für Ethnologie an der Universität Leipzig.
