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CORAL GARDENS
Leni Riefenstahl.
Harper & Row, New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco,
London 1978.
Hardcover, dustjacket, size 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 223
pages.
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Walter.
Leni Riefenstahl is most famous for her documentary and
propaganda films and photos - "Triumph of the Will" - on the Nazi rallies
at Nuremburg and others. Making her a favorite of Hitler. But after WWII,
she turned to other photography and is well known also for her underwater
and African photography. At the age of 71, Riefenstahl knocked twenty years
off her age to enable her to take diving instruction, and the result is
this stunning book of the myriad life beneath the Indian Ocean, The Red
Sea and the Caribbean. This book presents her full color photos of tropical
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REEF - A SAFARI THROUGH THE CORAL
WORLD
Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch.
Published by: Headline Book Publishing PLC, London in
1991.
Hard back with blue boards and dust jacket. 200
printed pages. Very well illustrated with many colour photographs, all
by the author. Dimensions : 28.5 cms tall by 22 cms wide.
Using high quality colour photographs, the author says
he intends the book as a divers guide to common reef fish, and reef inhabitants
including invertebrates and the coral itself. The photographs are
taken in an assortment of places like the Bahamas, The Red Sea, Papua
New Guinea and Australia. [pt]
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SAMANTHA
David Pilosoff (photographer); Samantha Bond (model).
H. Lonay and D. Pilosof, Tel Aviv: July 1977.
Hardcover, large format (larger than A4), with dustjacket.
Pages aare not numbered but suggest a book of some 120 pages. Appendix
provides photographic technical details of the equipment and images; and
information on how the model performed her task so well.
Early in the 1970s, Samantha Bond moved to London from
Australia to pursue a modeling career. Her path crossed David Pilosof's
in 1973; he was in England looking for a girl willing to take on the challenge
of an underwater modeling stint. This book is the result.
Sorry, I forgot to mention - Samantha is naked. I don't
believe there is any other book such as this. The photos are modest and
tasteful, and well posed. It would be a difficult assignment for most lady
divers but Samantha was a champion swimmer and obviously someone who loved
the sea. I did not realise when I met her at the Brighton Diving Conference
in 1977 that she was an Aussie, born in Albury, and spent much time in
my home city of Melbourne. Pilosoff's general marine life images are nothing
to write home about, so the book really centres around Samantha. Now quite
a valuable book, as it should be, for its originality. Samantha writes
(on the back of the dustjacket): "I have walked through beauty ....
in the enchanted waters deep below the surface of the Red Sea. Come with
me. Share my adventure. It's like being in another world". Yep, I wouldn't
have minded being there at the time - to learn something about underwater
photography of course. [ps]. |
