The Future Is in Your Hands : Portrait Photography from Senegal / Beth Buggenhagen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buggenhagen, Beth, author.

Series:

Material vernaculars (Series)

Material Vernaculars Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait photography.

Senegal.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 2023

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images to mend fraught and fragmented lives in the context of decades of migration. The Future Is in Your Hands provides an expansive frame for photography to highlight the role of affect in portraiture practices. Moving from the colonial to the newly independent Senegal, Beth Buggenhagen combines museum, ethnographic, and archival research on photography's past with lens-based artists who address themes of separation, visibility, rupture, and repatriation through portraiture. Buggenhagen, in collaboration with Senegalese photographers, explores how photographs, as visual and material objects, migrate themselves and, like the bodies they represent, create a record not only of lived experiences but also of the cycle of migration for this labor-exporting country. By complicating the history of portraiture in Senegal, The Future Is in Your Hands reveals the enduring power of images and the efforts under way to keep this art form safely in Senegalese hands"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Portraits and the Weight of the Future

"Uncontrollable Circulation": Portraiture in and out of Senegal

"Send Us Your Photos": Portraiture in Bingo Magazine

Family Portraits

Ibrahima Thiam's Vintage Portraits

Cut from the Same Cloth: Omar Victor Diop's The Studio of Vanities

Epilogue: New Thresholds for "Reigniting Collections".

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Buggenhagen, Beth A. The Future Is in Your Hands

ISBN:

9780253067791

0253067790

9780253067784

0253067782

OCLC:

1402815619