Michael Rockefeller

New Guinea Photographs, 1961

Kevin Bubriski

Foreword by Robert Gardner

Photographs by Michael Rockefeller

  • 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Third Place Winner, Photography Category
  • Winner of 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award Interior Design 1-2 Color, Independent Book Publishers Association

Scenes of tribal life possess a certain beauty and innocence, and this volume is made all the more poignant by the fact that [Rockefeller] did not get to continue his work, for he disappeared while on his next expedition. The documents reproduced here are a fascinating first look at the considerable talent of this anthropologist with a camera.
   --Black & White Magazine

  • Cover: Michael Rockefeller

Kevin Bubriski is a documentary photographer and curator of an exhibit of Michael Rockefeller’s photographs at the Harvard Peabody Museum. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and NEA fellowships, and his photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

Filmmaker Robert Gardner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; founding director of Harvard Film Study Center (1957-1997); former director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts; faculty member, Department of Anthropology and Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, 1960-2000. He is the author of The Impulse to Preserve (2006) and Making Dead Birds: Chronicle of a Film (2007).