The Magic of Morocco

by Jalloun, Tahar Ben; D'Hooghe, Alain; Sijelmassi, Mohamed

• ISBN13: 9782845760103
• ISBN10: 2845760108
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Vilo Intl

Summary

The magic of Morocco has enticed many visitors to its people and places. Eugene Delacroix and Henri Matisse created some essential works there. Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac all responded to the magnetic pull of Morocco -- its promising smiles, its heady mix of passions, its colors and beauties, the music of the snake-charmer, the dust and perfume in the air, the curves of dunes as far as the eye can see. The magic of Morocco is a kind of poison, yet it is the sweetest of poisons.

Photography has no parallel as a recorder of the split seconds of emotion and sensation, and the photographers who have brought back the striking images in this book have themselves been drawn to Morocco from many different countries and cultures.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(3)
Tahar Ben Jelloun
With Desire As the Sole Guide	10	(8)
Alain D'Hooghe
From Delacroix to Matisse	11	(1)
Writing Morocco Off the Grand Tour Tentative Beginnings	12	(1)
The First Intimate Pictures a Pictorialist in Morocco	13	(1)
A Passion for Material Resident Photographers	14	(1)
Forbidden Pleasures An Artist and Ethnographer	15	(1)
Marginal Images The Simplest Things Suggesting as Much as Showing	16	(1)
The Vast Desert The Snare of the Medina Secular Idols and Icons	17	(1)
Photographic Credits	18	(4)
A Certain Vision of Morocco	22	(3)
Mohamed Sijelmassi
The Magic of Morocco (photographic portfolio)	25	(154)
Acknowledgments	179	(2)
Chronology of Recent Moroccan History	181	(3)
Index of Names	184	(2)
Bibliography & Glossary	186