Snap judgments : new positions in contemporary African photography / Okwui Enwezor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enwezor, Okwui.

Contributor:

International Center of Photography.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic--Africa--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

Portrait photography--Africa--Exhibitions.

Portrait photography.

Exhibitions.

Africa.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Steidl, 2006.

Summary:

Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography gathers approximately 250 works by 30 artists from across the continent, an amazingly wide range of individual artistic responses to the unprecedented shifts taking place in Africa's economic, social and cultural spheres. In addition to introducing audiences to the multiple imaginations and voices of today's African artists, Snap Judgments explores the ways photo-based art has developed across the dialectic of traditional African aesthetic values and Western influences. Contemporary African photography has emerged in the post-World War II de-colonization movements, the quest for independent national identity, and the effects of globalization and modernity. Snap Judgments organizes the work that grew out of all that into four thematic groups--landscape; urban formations; the body and identity; and history and representation--groups that reflect the issues around which Africa's experimental artists have been articulating new styles and visual languages. Nigerian independent curator and art historian Okwui Enwezor, widely recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on contemporary African art, has included an essay by art historian Colin Richard, an appendix on recent exhibitions of African photography, biographical notes on the artists, and a general bibliography.

Contents:

Contains work by Doa Aly, Lara Baladi, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Yto Barrada, Luis Basto, Zohra Bensemra, Zarina Bhimji, Mohamed Camara, Ali Chraïbi, Omar D., Depth of Field, Allan deSouza, Andrew Dosunmu, Hala Elkoussy, Theo Eshetu, Mamadou Gomis, Kay Hassan, Romuald Hazoumé, Fatou Kandé Senghor, Moshekwa Langa, Maha Maamoun, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Zwelethu Mthethwa, James Muriuki, Lamia Naji, Otobong Nkanga, Jo Ratcliffe, Tracey Rose, Randa Shaath, Mikhael Subotzky, Sada Tangara, Guy Tillim, Michael Tsegaye, Hentie van der Merwe, and Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the International Center of Photography, New York, Mar. 10 - May 28, 2006.

Bibliography: pages 379-383.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

3865212247

OCLC:

68629441

Publisher Number:

9783865212245