Samuel Fosso : autoportrait / edited by Okwui Enwezor ; contributions by Quentin Bajac, Yves Chatap, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Jean Marc Patras, Terry Smith, Claire Staebler, James Merle Thomas, and Artur Walther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fosso, Samuel, 1962- photographer.

Walther, Artur, author of foreword.

Patras, Jean Marc, author of introduction.

Bajac, Quentin, author.

Chatap, Yves, author.

Dyangani Ose, Elvira, author.

Okeke-Agulu, Chika, author.

Onabanjo, Oluremi C., author.

Smith, Terry (Terry E.), author.

Staebler, Claire, author.

Thomas, James M. (James Merle), author.

Contributor:

Enwezor, Okwui, editor, interviewer.

McLaren, Julia, translator.

Language:

English

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Fosso, Samuel, 1962---Exhibitions.

Fosso, Samuel.

Fosso, Samuel, 1962---Portraits--Exhibitions.

Fosso, Samuel, 1962---Interviews.

Fosso, Samuel, 1962-.

Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

Portraits.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

351 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 x 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Autoportrait

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Walther Collection ; Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2020.

Language Note:

"The essays by Yves Chatap and Claire Staebler were translated by Julia McLaren."--Page 352.

Biography/History:

Samuel Fosso born 1962 in West Cameroon to Nigerian parents.

Summary:

"Autoportrait is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits by Samuel Fosso, one of the most significant African photographic artists working today. Since the mid-1970s, Fosso has focused on self-portraiture and performance, envisioning variations of identity in the postcolonial era. Spanning his early black-and-white self-portraits through to his most recent, continually inventive exercises in self-presentation, highlights from his remarkable body of work include the vibrant series "Tati" (1997), in which Fosso playfully inhabits a range of African and African American characters and archetypes; and the magisterial "African Spirits" (2008), wherein he poses, with uncanny precision, as icons of the pan-African liberation and civil rights movements, such as Nelson Mandela and Angela Davis. With new essays and research by leading scholars and writers, Autoportrait demonstrates Fosso's unique departure from the traditions of West African studio photography, established in the 1950s and 1960s by modern masters Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé. By charting his conceptual practice of self-portraiture and his sustained engagement with notions of sexuality, gender and self-representation, this landmark monograph reveals an unprecedented photographic project--one that has consistently reflected and commemorated themes in global visual culture and covered a range of expressive applications of the photographic medium."--book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword / Artur Walther

Introduction / Jean Marc Patras

The invention of the artist as a young photographer / Samuel Fosso in conversation with Okwui Enwezor

70's lifestyle

Tati / Elvira Dyangani Ose

Mémoire d'un ami / Yves Chatap

Le rêve de mon grand-père / Chika Okeke-Agulu

African spirits / Quentin Bajac

Emperor of Africa / Claire Staebler

ALLONZENFANS / James Merle Thomas

Black pope / Terry Smith

SIXSIXSIX / Oluremi C. Onabanjo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of the exhibition held at the Walther Collection, New York, from September 24, 2020 to February 6, 2021.

Contains:

Fosso, Samuel, 1962- Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9783958296121

3958296122

OCLC:

1159266221

Publisher Number:

9783958296121