The curse of Central Africa
A 1903 London travel account by Guy Burrows and Edgar Canisius, published by R.A. Everett & Co., describing a campaign among cannibal peoples in Central Africa for a general reading public interested in colonial exploration. The photographs are rough black-and-white halftones of people standing or posed outdoors, with village huts, palms and fences in the background, many printed sideways on the page. A designer could draw on their plain documentary staging, strong light and shadow, and the formal, posed groupings of figures in white cloth and drums.
