...Monique Kerman When Okwui Enwezor gained world renown as artistic director of Documenta11 in 2002, his accomplishments as curator of contemporary African art were already well established. His In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940–Present , exhibition (1996) had the temerity to describe...

... buildings, monuments, and cities associated with the that could be mentioned. construction of a popular image of Europe and of clas• ^ See Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya, "Colonial Imaginary, sic sites of memory on any tourist's photographic itin• Tropes of Disruption," in In/sight: African...

... at the back of the catalog, which envisioned Snap Judgments as the natural sequel to In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, held...

... portraiture in his introduction to In/Sight: African Photographers from 1940 to the Present (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1995...

... (2010): 119 133. A small body of scholarship has addressed the connec- tions between photography and sculpture. See Stephen F. Sprague, Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves, African Arts 12, no. 1 (1978): 52 59, 107; Olu Oguibe, Photography and the Substance of the Image, in In/sight...

...M.C. Stephens Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 M.C. STEPHENS et me say from the outset that the selection of work in "In/Sight" is in opposition to Western...

... Smith Nka • 7 self-governance in which African Americans could Portraits of a New Nation demonstrate their equality with Euro-Americans One of Washington’s early Liberian images stages and hold all positions in society, government, and a first sighting of Monrovia. View of Monrovia commerce...

... photography, at once gogical—bringing what is at the periphery of our forcing and buttressing the medium's complex consciousness and sight to the center. relationship to abstract art. Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was among the 138* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art...

... into tion of white criminal acts. But Goldsby also takes a place of mourning has engaged several critics who on the wrenchingly different and difficult matter of think about lynching. In Passed On: African reading lynching photographs in esthetic terms. American Mourning Stories...

... of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 how and why the viewer might infer the racial iden- others’ discomfort with the portrayal of her home tity of the occupants without sight of their bodies, or her presence in Suburbia, she is at peace. and furthermore, how and why that assumption Bright’s...

..., Dakar-based photographer and Di- 102 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 36 • May 2015 ba’s collaborator, were displayed on hanging plastic practices. At the opening of Tout Se Sait, actor Ma- sheets and on the walls surrounding the installation. codou Mbengue and dancer Jean Tamba used...

...Nancy Hines Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 (Photographer unknown), Saint...

... a lesson of fatal consequences, of the Within a year, the NAACP investigator William wrath of white fathers and brother, and uncles and Pickens found anxiety and paranoia escalating cousins roused by the sight of an African American among whites: "seven months after the savage lynch• man...

... the most important of these is In/sight, the exhibition of African photographers from 1940 to the present that opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in the summer of 1996. Put together by a team of independent curators In/sight is, perhaps, the first...

... there of any African photographer. Superbly beauty within. So must the portraitist failures on the part of the sitter: a last were only a handful of photographers...

... behind Shonibare’s per- tographs that have come to constitute the primary formance is twofold. On the one hand, he reminds way we imagine Africa and its photographic history. the viewer that Africans and Europeans have always As we all know, the implied person behind commingled...

.... Photograph. Courtesy Bibliothèque nationale de France 46 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 41 • November 2017 colonial fantasies of taboo and desire. In this and in skin-tight, leopard-spotted, skimpy shorts or with other performances Benga showcased his talents as a revealing...

... the experience and memory of the urban space of Luanda through a photographic and performative interaction with its objects, it speaks of the complexities and contradictions inherent to the contemporary condition of dwelling in the global city. Copyright © 2017 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017...

...Julie L. McGee This essay examines recent work by the American artist Whitfield Lovell, who has been collecting and using vintage accoutrements—the material culture of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American life, including photographs—for many years. He is best known for his...

..., 18 76-l\lka Journal of Contemporary African Art argued that these postmodern readings are blind of humanity that, as his many photographs of to Mthethwa's specifically African agenda. some or other aspect of religious practice attests, At first sight, Chris...