Western Asia

In out-of-print volume 'This is War' Moises SAMAN shows what war really means: pain, destruction, darkness. The images are far from that reality that today's media present in the form of hypertechnical video games, as shiny and manipulated TV productions.

'Vergessenes Südarabien' (Forgotten South Arabia) by Hans HELFRITZ is above all enthnologically and historically interesting. It documents the way of life on the Arabian Peninsula in the early 1930s. The approximately 150 photos were taken with a Leica.