Hardback, English.Phaidon Press, 2005. New.
If you lived in the West African country of Benin during the 60s & 70s, photography was quite literally a matter of life and death. Benin, with its rich spiritual traditions of animism (voodoo was born here and is now Benin's official religion) whereby fetishes or objects are regarded to embody powerful spirits the photograph came to play a fascinating role in the rituals of death