what we see is the human body transformed, redesigned into representations of spirits—Design Observer

A very important work not to be missed. . . . The book features a selection of 1,200 images that were recently digitized from Gusinde’s original negatives and prints housed in the Anthropos Institute in Germany. The “bewitching quality” of images taken between 1919 and 1924 brings these extinct cultures alive with marvelous portraits, some with wonderful smiling faces, which are rich in cultural and religious activities with all the valuable ethnographic details and beauty of a landscape and its original people.—Choice

Arresting . . . . Not only pays tribute to Gusinde’s images, but the profound cultural loss they represent.—The Explorers Journal

Photography was an important aspect of Gusinde’s scientific and humanistic endeavor, and The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego is the first book to address this aspect of his work in its own right. . . . Bewitchingly surreal.—The New York Review of Books

Extraordinary. . . . A memorial to a people and a culture that were vanished from this earth.—Crave

A mesmerizing collection of photographs by the German priest and anthropologist Martin Gusinde, made in the course of four expeditions between 1918 and 1924… Gusinde's approach was both respectful and scientific; his pictures of wild costumes and total nudity alike are as rigorously framed as those his compatriots Bernd and Hilla Becher later made of disappearing industrial architecture—they share a taxonomic consideration that rewards the viewer with a stern but involving rhythm.—The New York Times Book Review