The Hyena & Other Men (Signed 1st EDT)

Pieter Hugo
The Hyena & Other Men (Signed 1st EDT)

Photographs: Pieter Hugo

Text: Pieter Hugo and Adetokunbo Abiola

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

80 pages

Pictures: 33

Year: 2007

Comments: Hardcover with a dusk jacket, 29.1 x 24.8 cm, True first edition. Color photographs printed on acid-free paper, kept in excellent condition. RARE !

Many myths surround the Hyena Men who haunt the peripheries of Nigeria's cities. Accompanied by hyenas, rock pythons and baboons, these men earn a living by performing before crowds and selling traditional medicines. Pieter Hugo's extraordinary portraits of their liminal existence reveal an uncanny world of complex, codependent relationships, where familiar distinctions between dominance and submission, wildness and domesticity, tradition and modernity are constantly subverted.