WENDT, Lionel — Ceylon.
Amsterdam, Fw:books, 2017. 22 x 17 cm. Illustrated cloth. 224 p. With nearly 150 photos. Explanatory texts by Shanay Jhaveri, Stephan Sanders, and Nicky van Banning. 1st edition. Beautiful copy without blemish. Around 1990, a number of unknown photos by the Sri Lankan photographer Lionel Wendt (1900-1944) were discovered. This book draws from the already known masterpieces of the 1950 book Ceylon and supplements them with unknown ones. The three essays are well worth reading. Scarce book published on the occasion of an exhibition in Amsterdam.