African Image by SAM HASKINS

Published by The Bodley Head, 1967, hardcover, illustrated, 28.5 cms x 30.8 cms, dust jacket is price clipped with some edgeware, otherwise condition: very good, 

152 illustrations (from photographs), with each  reproduced as a non-uniform thumbnail (and frequently cropped differently) in a eleven page pictorial index. 

Sam Haskins was a photographer, born and raised in South Africa. He started his career in Johannesburg and moved to London in 1968. Haskins is best known for his contribution to in-camera image montage, Haskins Posters (1973) and the 1960s figure photography trilogy Five Girls (book) (1962), Cowboy Kate & Other Stories (1964) and November Girl (book) (1967).

Haskins was born in Kroonstad in the OFS. His father  was a goods inspector on SAR. Early creative influences were fueled by an interest in magic tricks, kite making, drawing and the circus. A talented athlete, as a teenager he excelled at hurdling and trained with a circus.

Haskins started his career as an advertising photographer in Johannesburg in 1953. He ran what was probably the first modern freelance advertising studio in Africa. He produced commercial work across a very broad spectrum of photography from still life to industrial, fashion and aerial. His first formal creative output was a one-man show at the popular Johannesburg department store John Orrs in 1960. This featured black-and-white photography of models in the studio and included some photographs of dolls made by the young Elisabeth Langsch, who went on to become Switzerland's leading ceramist.
                                                                                         His ode to sub-saharan tribal Africa  is "African Image ".