The African lookbook : a visual history of 100 years of African women / Catherine E. McKinley ; introduction by Edwidge Danticat ; foreword by Jacqueline Woodson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKinley, Catherine E., author.

Contributor:

Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- writer of introduction.

Woodson, Jacqueline, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Africa--History.

Women.

Women--Africa--Social conditions.

History.

Africa.

Social conditions.

Women--Africa--Pictorial works.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Illustrated works.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

xxv, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

African look book

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

A curator and writer, drawing on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos, presents this unprecedented visual history of African women across centuries.

McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history of African women across centuries. These images tell how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. She shows that, while African studios captured the dignity, austerity, and grandeur of African women, photos by Europeans are mostly nudes, revealing the relationships of white men and Black females: at best, a grave power imbalance. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. I Heritage

The African Masters, 1900s

1970s

ch. II With a Certain Eye

The Colonial Studio, 1870

1957

ch. III Dressing and Undressing, 1900

1940

ch. IV Clothes for a New Nation

Independence and Post-Independence, 1957

1970s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.

ISBN:

9781620403532

1620403536

OCLC:

1231555879

Publisher Number:

99986716945