On the 5 th of September 2003 the Pierre Verger Foundation opened, at the entrance of the historical centre of Salvador, a new space called “Fundação Pierre Verger – Galeria”, with the aim of better exposing the work of Pierre Verger. As the Foundation itself is located within Pierre Verger’s own house, in a popular neighbourhood of Salvador distant from the main cultural and tourist routes of the city, the gallery, centrally located, allows for a greater public to discover the work of the photographer. The gallery, open daily, presents the photographs of Pierre Verger through exhibits changed every three months. The gallery is also a space where the public can discover and buy recent publications on Pierre Verger and inquire further about the photographer and the Foundation.
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Fundação Pierre Verger Galeria Portal da Misericórdia, nº 9, Loja 1 Centro Histórico 40.020-200 – Salvador – BA Brasil Tel: (00 55) (71) 3321 2341 e-mail: galeriafpv@pierreverger.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
How to get there
The Galeria Fundação Pierre Verger is located between the Praça Municipal (where the Lacerda elevator arrives) and the Praça da Sé (entrance to the Pelourinho), facing the Misericordia church. To get there, take any bus going to “Praça da Sé” or “Baroquinha”.
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Ewé – The use of plants in yoruba society Author: Pierre Fatumbi Verger Ilustration: Carybe Companhia das Letras 1995 744 pages size: 22,5x17X5 Index – Editor’s Note – Acknowledgementes – Introduction The Action of Plants and the Activating Words of Incantations Chapter 1- The Efficacy of the word Chapter 2- Oppsitions Chapter 3- Works most asked for Medicinal an Magical Formalae – Oògún, remedies for healing the body – Ìbímo, remedies relating to pregnancy and birth – Òrisà, works to worship yoruba deities – Àwúre, beneficient works – Àbìlù , evil works – Ìdáàbòbò, antidotes to “evil works” or “protective Works” Annexes
BLACK-SKINNED WOMEN: QUEEN MOTHERS OF THE BLACK RACE AND ALL BEAUTY!
Why do I sing Praises of your Beautiful, Black, ebony,velvet skin,”Blacker than the sky at midnight”{1},your full mushroomed mouth, your beautiful broad nose, your generous “Congo hips” {2}and full-flowered backside? Because for too long many of the Black Race have abused, dishonored you, degraded and denied you your crown, Queen of Queens,Queen Mother of the Black Race, Black Beauty Supreme! From you all the beauty of the Black Race springs forth.In fact all the world’s beauty springs from you,Mother of all beauty of all the races of the world! Your Black midnight,licorice,dark black chocolate,beauty, is Blackness concentrated in your beautiful “Black-blueberry”{3} face!
First in the order of creation is always given respect by Afrikan tradition. The 1st wife, the 1st elder, the 1st kingdom, the 1st original inhabitants, of the earth-all are considered with honor. So it should be with Black Beauty-our darkest -skinned Sisters are the 1st Mothers of the Universe-Black as a color came before all the many tones of brown,red,yellow and white. But for too long our Dark-skinned Queens have not been given the respect and place of honor they deserve. IN FACT THE WHITE BOY HAS INTIATED the cycle of reversing the true order of things by turning upside down the pyramid of Beauty, and placing white-light on top and relegating the most beautiful Black-skinned Beauties to rock bottom!
So Black people have been taught well how to deny our most
beautiful one her crown, taught how to reject our Blackest, most Afrikan features, full lips and nose and mouth and woollest hair, for the weaker characteristics of the white race. Shame on Black people! When will we wake up to this Black Beauty concentrated, from whence all our lesser beauty comes. When will we give the crown of crowns,the throne of thrones, to the Blackest Queen of Queens?
Most of us who suffer from”mulatto-mentality” and “yellow fever”, as Fela, our great Nigerian Musician calls it, will go on and on about what about us lighter queens-aren’t we/they beautiful too, yet you/we should be aware that such queens have gotten all the play in the past and that even in Black Egypt one of the reasons for its downfall was the allowing the lighter ones of the race, to place themselves above the rest of us in the name of lightness and pride of light-closer/to/whiteness. So if we’re yellow,to light brown/red, then we should give respect where respect is due and not live off of the artificial white thrill of having “white features” as if it is an advantage. Where would you be without your BLACKEST great Grandmother? We should honor the Blackest part of ourselves, thus giving us true pride of Blackness, not verbal signifyin’ but real testifyin’ that BLACK is beautiful! If the Blackest, most Afrikan-featured Sister isn’t respected as the Supreme Beauty of the Race,the Black woman’s beauty is not really respected at all for what it really is(only in terms of how closer to white we look). We all reflect the strengths of this concentrated beauty in ourselves, all the manifestations of how Blackness can present itself are seen in our faces. Down to the milk-lightest of us, our Blackness is what dominates us whether physically or mentally. But the Mother is greater than the child and so the Blackest is greater than all the other tones of the Black Race. If we don’t respect our Blackest Queen, we don’t respect our True Black selves. We must have a Black value for BLACKNESS in features and skin tone. We must have a Black Standard of Beauty based on the Black-skinned woman. ALL PRAISES DUE TO OUR BLACK-SKINNED QUEEN-MOTHERS!
Sister Yeye Akilimali Funua Olade
1981,Lagos,Nigeria
BLACK NOTES: Let me give tribute to Brother Damu,House of Umoja(San Francisco) for{1}
{2}Brother O.O. Gabugan in the poem “Black Queen For a Day”,{3}Sister Sonia Sanchez in her poem “,Queens of the Universe”,for the quoted words used in the first part of this article.
GABOUREY SIDIBE IS A BIG BLACK SKINNED BEAUTY WHO HAS BROKEN THE IMITATION WHITE GIRL GLASS STANDARD OF BEAUTY!