Pierre Verger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre Verger

French photographer

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1902

Place of Birth: 8th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1996

Profession: photographer, anthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí (4 November 1902, in Paris – 11 February 1996, in Salvador, Brazil) was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest of Ifà) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora — the slave trade, the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economical flows from and to Africa.