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CAUVIN, ANDRÉ (1907-2004) A select gathering of 66 large-format exhibition prints of the Belgian Congo.
CAUVIN, ANDRÉ (1907-2004)
A select gathering of 66 large-format exhibition prints of the Belgian Congo. Silver prints flush mounted to masonite, 24x36 inches (60.9x91.4 cm.) and smaller, signed by Cauvin on recto, and with a typewritten caption, in English, on verso. 1951-1956
A select gathering of 66 large-format exhibition prints of the Belgian Congo. Silver prints flush mounted to masonite, 24x36 inches (60.9x91.4 cm.) and smaller, signed by Cauvin on recto, and with a typewritten caption, in English, on verso. 1951-1956
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Notes: André Cauvin was a renowned Belgian filmmaker, photographer and author. The large-format photographs offered in this lot were apparently part of an exhibition, perhaps at the United Nations, dedicated to documenting the, then, Belgian Congo. Cauvin brings a cineaste's attention to narrative in his close-up and medium-shot pictures of native life, which are compelling photographs in their own right. Each print is signed and captioned, in English.
His films include: Black Shadows (1949), Bwana Kitoko (1955), Bongolo (1952), and Bwana Kitoko (Noble Seigneur) (1955). He collaborated on several books about Africa: L'Équateur aux cent visages (1948), Congo (1945), for which John Latouch wrote the text, and Nos soldats d'Afrique (1939).
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Condition: "To Watsa, the Congo Army training camp, the tribes of the Congo send their fighting men to learn new techniques of warfare." * "A student of the radio school." * "The Congolese army on review." * "Rifle practice." * "Combat practice on jungle terrain." * "Such soldiers as these helped win the Abyssinian campaign." * "Old techniques of war are not forgotten-soldiers cross a temporary bridge they have made from native liana vines." * "Camouflage in the bush." (2) * "Five years ago this army bugler played only a wooden flute in his Topoke village." * "Jeeps in the Congo." * "The watch over the Congo." * "Allied trucks move over Congolese highways toward ABA." * "Monument to King Leopold II." * "Medical students are trained in the large center to assist in the unending war against tropical diseases." * "Laboratory at Leopoldville, a viper's fangs are milked to make anti-snake bite serum." * "At Yakusu in the leper colony, new medical science systematically battles against this ancient malady. Already the early stages of leprosy are curable." * "Native housing project." (2) * "The natives are deeply religious-at a chapel in a military camp they wait to receive communion." * "Mission child counting his beads." (2) * "The copper miner and his fellow workers have helped to produce the vast exports of copper from the Congo. Last year over 160,000 tons of ingots were shipped to the allies." * "Each miner uses an anti-silicosis spray drill." * "Mountains of slag mark the high geared tin production of the manono mines." * "The Kambove copper mines at Jadotville, (Katanga)." * "From the port of Matadi the metals and raw materials of the Congo sail to the free ports of the world." (2) * "Native toolmaker." * "A youth contemplates the industrial age rising over the ancient equatorial forests." * "Oil tanks on the Matadi waterfront." * "The Matadi waterfront at sunset." * "An industrial harlequin from the oil company petrocongo." * "Palm oil piles high on the docks of Leopoldville." * "Constructing launches for British airways." * "At Mount Hawa, the only silk cultivation center in Africa, cocoons and surgical gut are prepared. The natives bring cocoons from their village nurseries to the white man who buys them and prepares them for shipment to Great Britain. They will be made into silk for parachutes." * "The white man looks into the shining tuba. Like the sorcerer, he then sees what cannot be seen. A girl being taught in a silk-worm laboratory." * "Silkworm eggas are distributed to the natives." * "The palm fruit being produced scientifically at Yumgambe yields an oil which has many modern uses, ranging from margarine to the processing of the plate." * "Botanical gardens at Yangambi." (2) * "Palm tree nursery where super palms are grown." * "Equatorial scene-giant liana vine." * "The Congo basin was formed by volcanic upheavals. Lava field at Sake (Kivu)." * "Storm over the Congo." * "A typical colonial residence." * "The natives call this instrument 'ndara.'" * "Bantu harpist." * "Congolese children." (2) * "Monumental Bakuba mask carved of native red wood." * "A chief of the Topoke, a still deeply primitive tribe near Isangi on the Congo. A Topoke chief demonstrates the tattooing of which he is so proud." * "Topoke chief." (2)* "Topoke chief." (variant) * "Jungle Madonna, Itufri region." * "Mangbetu matron." * "Her name is Gaziba." * "Bantu porter." * "At Binza, a blue month lighted on the porter's forehead. He considers it a lucky omen." (2) * "Arabised negro from Stanleyville." * "The Mohammedan negro who knew Stanley, he said "when we saw their white faces we thought them corpses who walked and talked by evil magic. …" * "Stanleyville, the Wagenias tribe of fisherman, at the Stanley Fall rapids." * "Lake Mimale, near Bukama in the Katanga. Southern Congo." * "The 'Little Channel' Congo river near Bukama."
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