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James Barnor : stories : pictures from the archive (1947-1987) / texts, Damarice Amao, Matthieu Humery, Margaux Lavernhe, Bianca Manu, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Isabella Seniuta.
LIBRA TR681.A33 B37 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnor, James, photographer, interviewee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barnor, James--Exhibitions.
- Barnor, James.
- Barnor, James--Interviews.
- Portrait photography--Exhibitions.
- Portrait photography.
- Africans--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Africans.
- Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Photographers, Black--Ghana.
- Photographers, Black.
- Photographers, Black--Great Britain.
- Great Britain.
- Ghana.
- Genre:
- Photobooks
- Interviews
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition, pictorial works.
- Photobooks.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), facsimile, portraits (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Luma Foundation, [2022]
- Biography/History:
- James Barnor (born 1929) opened his first photography studio in Accra, Ghana, in 1949. He also worked for the press, capturing in photos the movement that led to his country's independence in 1957. Living in the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1969, he documented the experience of the diaspora in the 'Swinging London' of the sixties. He branched out to colour photography, and returned to Ghana in 1970 to cultivate the use of the technique.
- Summary:
- "In 1947, as the first demonstrations calling for Ghana's independence were taking place, the young James Barnor began training in a photographic studio in Accra. His career was launched. In 1987, it took a last change of direction after he ceased working as an official government photographer. Over the next four decades, driven by his limitless curiosity for the photographic medium, but also by sometimes difficult economic conditions that compelled him to reinvent himself, Barnor constantly moved around the gamut of photographic professions. His trajectory has revolved between the two poles of a world he has made for himself: Accra, his birthplace, and London, his adopted city. For his first retrospective in France, James Barnor has assembled, with LUMA, a completely original portfolio of his favourite images. These were selected by re-examining his vast archive of 30,000 negatives and several hundred prints and period documents. The exhibition has been organised to allow a comparison of the images and archives so as to cast light on the context of their production. It also gives plentiful space to the comments of the photographer, now ninety-three years old and a veritable archive of information that enlivens the myriad stories represented in his images. Following a chronological sequence, we travel from Ghana in the 1950s to the United Kingdom in the 1960s, then back to Ghana from the 1970s onwards. Whereas his work joins that of other West African photographers of the same generation, who are now well known, his continual departures and returns have made him part of a transcontinental history of photography that has not yet received great attention. Barnor's images bring to life the utopia of a shared world, one that transcends the nationalisms of the second half of the 20th century. Long side-lined, today these images inspire a new generation of artists who are fighting to represent blackness around the world."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Forword / Maja Hoffmann
- James Barnor : an Anglo-Ghanian odyssey / Matthieu Humery
- Between Accra and London : a photographic adventure / Damarice Amao
- Behind the images : James Barnor's archive-world / Margaux Lavernhe
- Capturing potential : a brief history of Ghana's progress / Bianca Manu
- Pictures from the archive (1947-1987)
- Ghana 1947-1959
- United Kingdom 1959-1969
- Ghana 1969-1987
- Interview with James Barnor / Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Shaping new stories / Isabella Seniuta.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Tour du Parc des Ateliers, Luma Arles, from July 4, 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9791096575268
- 9781838268381
- 1838268383
- OCLC:
- 1336487426
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