Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this book, the French photographer and ethnologist Pierre (Fatumbi) Verger documents, in words and pictures, a number of cults and divinities that are worshiped in African countries (Nigeria and Benin) and in the city of Salvador, in the Brazilian [...]

These texts are selections from a book that includes 128 watercolors, created between 1940 and 1980 by the Argentine visual artist known as Carybé. The book records different aspects of the Afro-Brazilian rites of Candomblé: there are illustrations [...]

This book is about religious expression in Nigeria, Benin (formerly Dahomey), and Brazil. It documents—in words and photographs—the rituals of Candomblé (an African-Brazilian cult with Yoruba roots) that were faithfully practiced in the city of [...]