Africa in the View of the Photographers
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Author: Frank Kramer (ed.)
Stereotypes still dominate the Western image of Africa and we tend to actually know very little about cities like Lagos, Porto-Novo, or Kinshasa. The book presents photographs by African artists who tell stories from everyday life in the metropolises, of the unruliness of nature and industry, of traces of the past, cultural identity interwoven with fictional Afro-futuristic plots and pop culture.Osborne Macharia, for example, interweaves Kenya’s cultural identity with fictional Afro-futuristic plots; Yoriyas documents the small moments of life in his native Casablanca in pictures that have been picked up by the New York Times, National Geographic, and Vogue; Alice Mann’s intimate essays in portraiture, meanwhile, explore ideas about the making of pictures as a collaborative act. With additional works by Ilan Godfrey, Fabrice Monteiro, Kibuuka Mukisa Oscar, Léonard Pongo, and Fethi Sahraoui, the book offers a profoundly original survey of African realities.
ISBN 9783947563951. DCV. pb. text in German, essays and artist info in English. 104 pages, 180 ills. 24 x 28 cm.
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Stereotypes still dominate the Western image of Africa and we tend to actually know very little about cities like Lagos, Porto-Novo, or Kinshasa. The book presents photographs by African artists who tell stories from everyday life in the metropolises, of the unruliness of nature and industry, of traces of the past, cultural identity interwoven with fictional Afro-futuristic plots and pop culture.Osborne Macharia, for example, interweaves Kenya’s cultural identity with fictional Afro-futuristic plots; Yoriyas documents the small moments of life in his native Casablanca in pictures that have been picked up by the New York Times, National Geographic, and Vogue; Alice Mann’s intimate essays in portraiture, meanwhile, explore ideas about the making of pictures as a collaborative act. With additional works by Ilan Godfrey, Fabrice Monteiro, Kibuuka Mukisa Oscar, Léonard Pongo, and Fethi Sahraoui, the book offers a profoundly original survey of African realities.
ISBN 9783947563951. DCV. pb. text in German, essays and artist info in English. 104 pages, 180 ills. 24 x 28 cm.
available