Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa, 1948-1953

by Hector Acebes, Ed Marquand, Isolde Brielmaier

Photographing with the box camera his father had given him, Hector Acebes noticed as a teenager in the 1930s that his pictures of friends and family were consistently sharper and more carefully composed than those taken by his schoolmates. This innate talent, combined with solid training in engineering and an attraction to adventure, eventually grew into a long and productive career as a documentary and industrial filmmaker. It is Acebes's still photographs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295984139
• ISBN13: 9780295984131
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.1" x 12.4"