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Verger, Pierre

LC control no.n 81013957
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Personal name headingVerger, Pierre
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Variant(s)Fatumbi
Verger, Pierre Fatumbi
Verger, Pierre Édouard Léopold
See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Fundação Pierre Verger
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Associated countryFrance
Associated placeBenin Nigeria
LocatedBrazil
Birth date1902-11-04
Death date1996-02-11
Place of birthParis (France)
Place of deathSalvador (Brazil)
Field of activityPhotography Candomblé music Candomblé (Religion) Yoruba (African people)--Religion
Profession or occupationPhotographers Ethnologists
Found inHis South Sea islands, 1937.
His Retratos da Bahia, 1946 a 1952, 1980: title page (Pierre Verger) page 254 (Pierre Fatumbi Verger, b. Pierre Édouard Léopold Verger 11/4/1902, in Paris; photographer, ethnologist, French Yoruba priest; currently lives in Bahia, Brazil)
Bahia Africa Bahia, 1996: title page (Pierre Verger) page 58 (Pierre Fatumbi Verger, d. 02/11/1996, in Salvador)
LC database, Oct 7, 2009: (Hdg.: Verger, Pierre)
Casa de Oxumarê, 2010: title page (Pierre Verger) page 7 (assumed his new existence as Fatumbi in Dec. 1958 when he recorded candomblé sacred songs)
Fundação Pierre Verger website, viewed November 19, 2018: Purpose and history (it functions in a house in Salvador, Bahia, Pierre Verger's home for many years; created in 1988 by Pierre Verger with the help of a group of friends, directed by him until his death; its creation was the result of two of his passions: that for Bahia and also for the African region along the Bight of Benin (Benin and Nigeria))
Associated languagepor