Object Details
- Local Numbers
- T 5 ZMB 2.3 EE 59
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 57938 75
- Frame value is 8.
- Slide No. T 5 ZMB 2.3 EE 59
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Zimbabwe
- Topic
- Monuments
- Historic sites
- Cultural landscapes
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Zimbabwe
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1959
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 17020
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides (photographs)
- Color slides
- Collection Citation
- Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Color slides
- Scope and Contents
- "In the layout of the Great Enclosure, everything was reduced to the scale of the individual. Even the most important and dramatic spaces, such as those beside the Conical Tower, were surprisingly restricted, allowing for small groups of people at most. Today a large part of the romantic attraction of Great Zimbabwe is its solitude and sense of mystery." [Garlake P., 2002: Early Art and Architecture of Africa; Great Zimbabwe and the Southern African Interior. Oxford University Press]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871016717-0
