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African
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Climate change
Communities
Contemporary
Cultural heritage
Culture
Edson Chagas
Em'kal Eyongakpa
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Etinosa Yvonne
Gods
Identity
Khadija Saye
Kings
Kudzanai Chiurai
Lebohang Kganye
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou
Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Magdalena Campos-Pons
Maimouna Guerresi
Masquerade
Photography
Portraiture
Postcolonial
Queens
Restitution
Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Sabelo Mlangeni
Spirituality
Traditions
Urbanism
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Zohra Opoku

Product details

  • ISBN 9781849768511
  • Dimensions: 192 x 251mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jul 2023
  • Publisher: Tate Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Since the invention of photography in the nineteenth century, Africa has been defined largely by Western images of its cultures and traditions. From the colonial carte de visite and ethnographic archive to the rise of studio portraiture and social documents of racial surveillance, the fraught relationship between Africa and the photographic lens has become inseparable from the discourses of post-colonialism.

Challenging these historical images of exoticism and otherness, this book illustrates how artists have used photography and video art to reimagine history and expand our understanding of contemporary realities.

Bringing together a diverse range of artists and thinkers to present perspectives on issues such as spirituality, urbanism and climate change, this book reveals the many ways images travel across time and geography, and how artists are redefining perceptions of the world we inhabit.
About
Osei Bonsu is Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, where he is responsible for organising exhibitions, developing the museum’s collection and broadening the representation of artists from Africa and the African diaspora. Nomusa Makhubu is an art historian, artist and associate professor of art history and visual culture at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art. In 2020, she featured on Apollo Magazine’s ‘40 under 40 Africa’. Jennifer Bajorek is a scholar and curator working at the intersection of literature, art, and media, with a geographic focus on contemporary Africa. She is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies at Hampshire College. Emmanuel Iduma is a Nigerian writer, editor, and photographer. Iduma is author of the novel The Sound of Things to Come (2016) and the non-fiction work A Stranger’s Pose (2018). In 2020, he was listed in Apollo International Art Magazine’s 40 under 40 Africa for the broad social impact of his work. He received a Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature (Non-fiction) in 2022. Sandrine Colard is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers University-Newark, a writer and an independent curator. She specialises in modern and contemporary African arts and photography, with a focus on Central Africa.