Ideas of africa : portraiture and political imagination /
Oluremi C. Onabanjo.
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Opplysninger | "From the 1950s to the 1970s, the winds of decolonial change swept the African continent while the Civil Rights movement surged in the United States, forming a transatlantic call and response that established Africa as a political idea. Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination unites the work of inventive image-makers from West and Central Africa, including Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, Jean Depara, and Sanlé Sory, to show how photographic portraits fueled ideas of Pan-African subjectivity and solidarity across space and time. Published to accompany a landmark exhibition illuminating Pan-African modes of picture-making since the 1950s, this richly illustrated catalogue features an essay by curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo that embraces the imaginative aspirations of photographic portraiture that emerged during the decolonial era, alongside critical contributions by poet Momtaza Mehri and film programmer Yasmina Price, and reproductions of key theoretical texts by Brent Hayes Edwards and V. Y. Mudimbe"--
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| ISBN | 9781633451711
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