EAN: 9783969990872

EVENTS OF THE SOCIAL PORTRAITURE AND COLLECTIVE...

This book is a comprehensive investigation into photographic works by artists from the African
continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the colonial gaze as its starting point 
Events of the Social looks at the diverse complexity of the nineteenth-century archive through
a selection of vintage portraits  cartes de visite  postcards and album pages. Three
generations of African artists from the 1940s till now then chart the changing features of
African societies through portraiture  exploring notions of the self  gender  sexuality  race 
social status and politics. The book also examines landscape and the built environment  showing
how architecture and spatial planning convey social order and ideology while reflecting
experiences of migration  colonialism  war and industrialization. Another group of artists 
born after the mid-1970s  explores issues of social identity  lineage  questions of belonging
and personal experiences. Artists featured include Sammy Baloji  Jodi Bieber  Mimi Cherono
Ng'ok  Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin  David Goldblatt  Seydou Keïta  Zanele Muholi  Malick Sidibé
and Mikhael Subotzky. Co-published with The Walther Collection  Neu-Ulm and New York

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