In the 80´s, I lived in Harare, Zimbabwe. Many people had just fled the country after Mugabe seized power in the in Rhodesia and renamed "his" country Zimbabwe ( the house of stone) and they left in a hurry and left a lot of their things behind. Among them: heaps of valuable books,to heavy to carry along on this journey into the unknown future..In Borrowdale shopping centre in the northern part of town, however, there was an old white haired lady - a "Rhodesian" as white people were then called, too old to go and who stayed on in the new Zimbabwe. She was a total book freak and was running a secondhand bookstore with plenty of old and valuable hardbacks - a true Aladin´s cave for a book worm like me. In her dark and book covered store ( where one hardly could make her out among the tall stacks of books) I found this marvellous book: Vouge 1893-1963, an anthology on seventy years of bound volumes of Vouge in which the photographs by the world´s most famous and successful photographers are represented. I present you below with a few (haphazardly chosen )of these pictures from this heavy volume that I really treasure. They all represent a spicy time color and spirit of their era - each and every one..And..They simply have to be shared!.
