... was immortalized in a series of photographs and newsreel footage that was disseminated around the world. The author contends that the events thereafter are frequently envisioned by Congolese popular painting, as it takes over from the operations of the camera in an era largely defined by the photographic...

... in photography for a few years and traveled with a couple of cameras and several lenses that summer. He took advantage of these tools during the festival, meeting and photographing people such as Eldridge Cleaver, then in exile in Algeria, and Julia Wright, daughter of novelist Richard Wright. Wade’s visual...

...Manthia Diawara Manthia Diawara became a close friend of Édouard Glissant in the early 1990s. In 2008, Glissant granted Diawara permission to make a film about his ideas. The author came with his camera to the 2008 Politics of the One-World conference in Paris to speak to Glissant about the film...

...Manthia Diawara In 2009, equipped with a camera, Manthia Diawara followed Édouard Glissant on the Queen Mary II in a transatlantic journey from South Hampton, United Kingdom, to Brooklyn, New York. This extraordinary voyage, six days and five nights, resulted in an intellectual biography in which...

... school vacation in era transformed and enchanted the land• paralysis around things mechanical reflects I973, I only had this camera for two years scape or person through the viewfinder. To the experience of an impoverished upbring• before my neighbor came...

... of the image as well as its subject matter. This doubling of the photographer being at the same time behind and in front of the camera...

... be a journalist, but you cannot be an activist, you can't have a perspective, you can't have an opinion. But the camera always has an opinion; the camera always has...

... Deus (City of God) With this scene, the film firmly places itself in conversation T opens with a stunning sequence that introduces the view• with Brazilian Cinema Novo. This movement consolidated itself er to aesthetics and themes of the film. The camera...

..., a different which you know of, and we did not have many choices culture, a different language where we didn't have the there: either you were a criminal or an athlete. If you possibility of emigrating. We remained immigrants will, my mother put a camera in my hands not long even when we returned home...

...: So where did the art come from? dreamed that I would have a camera. I didn't even know what a camera was! I certainly hadn't thought of GP: Today I look back and wonder about where it all a camera as an instrument...

... and coconstituted each other. On the the camera in the ethnographic photograph is the other hand, he confronts the viewer with a kind white man. But this white man is not simply an of ironic self-­assertion, thereby turning the whole individual; he embodies the entire power relation- world...

... been an artist for most of her life. Since I was a child, I was always looking at my grandmother and my step-great-grandfather and my mother, and it started out with drawings and paintings, she explained in a 2018 interview with Aperture.2 The story goes that she began using disposable cameras...

.... 35mm-camera close-up usually used used usually close-up 35mm-camera...

... Vacant plot near Atlantico Sul , 2007. sistance and increasing mobilization against the forces of my signature mode—plastic cameras, dissembled subject the apartheid government, which took extreme measures matter, furtive looking, those “filmstrip”-like sequences, in countering...

... of the exotic have been repetition to a decorative place of limbo; a place shaped by many of the historical tropes framed in that we see so richly represented in the tropical earlier photographs. paintings of Henri Rousseau or the Mediterranean The camera has been an important tool for con• scenes...

... dictates to you rather than you to it. was always a musical accompaniment in the blackest when set against a sharp, white back ground, it is real silence. I find it diffi• background? but asking the question The idea of putting the camera in an unfamil• cult to breathe...

... men and their fancy and Bad Hair. But something unexpected happened that Cadillacs, I was taken by the sheer gorgeousness of the led me to the conclusion that a view camera would be the photographs: the combination of the fabulous cars, the most appropriate format for this body...

... and motion-picture Bamako. The characters occupy the center of the cameras to represent themselves? Did they inherit photographs like Hollywood heroes and individu• the stereotypes of Africans forged by Europeans, als who have conquered history. or did they try to find a new language? There are My...

.... Appropriation of Africa's visu• take into consideration both the history of this medium al world through the invention of the camera went and the particular aesthetics it has come to represent. It hand in hand with the appropriation of Africa's wealth. must also take into consideration the revolutionary...

... question is whether the function of the text refutes all claims to the images save that of Africa. Inclusion is not image-world created by cameras [photographers] could be other than it the agenda. Some not so interesting stereotypes of western stereo• is. The present function is clear...