An album of 80 superb b&w photographs of the forest pygmies of the southern Central African Republic taken during a single expedition by prize-winning photogapher Benard Descamps.  His emphasis is to portray his subjects in their most natural of settings with an overt message of how such people live in ecological  balance with their natural surroundings.  Descamp's photographs  are reproduced as  large high-quality plates and are followed by essays on the pygmies' lifestyle, cutural practices and spiritual beliefs.  Text in French.   Very large paperback.  136 pages.  In new condition.  Cat No 4595