...Roderick A. Ferguson © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 2020136 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8719729 © 2020 by Nka Publications BLOODFLOWERS: ROTIMI FANI-KAYODE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE 1980s W. IAN BOURLAND DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019 W...

...Maria Golia Over the course of three years researching thousands of old photographs for her 2010 book Photography and Egypt (Reaktion Books), the author came across few examples of what might be termed “surrealist photography” in Egypt and little evidence for the exhibitions organized by Art...

... artists. This article focuses on two specific exhibitions and artists: Eugene Palmer’s Didn’t It Rain (2018) and Barbara Walker’s Sub Urban: New Drawings (2015), both organized at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. The author stresses the contrasting relationship to photography that each...

... not expose th em to th e history of lynch • ing they mi ght not ever find out about it. Teaching lynching photography in my ethnic studies an d art history courses has allowed me to ful• fill a political goal of my pedagogy, to teach difficult cha pters of race relations in Ame rica;I and it has ma...

... disintegrating hip- Black Photography impressive trio of participating Woods and Keisha Scarville, both hop posters. The work of both artists (Anthony Barboza...

... your starting point in photography. What led you to mother. That was my schooling. become a photographer or, if you will, what made you start working in photography? OE: Could you place for me precisely during which period...

... African Art ADGER W. COWANS Running Deep with Photography Dowoti Desir I n the twenty-first century, perceiving photo- ital, from 1960 to 2006, whose theme is the very I graphy as art is a construct taken for granted, special relationship Adger Cowans shares with I but from...

...Jacqueline Francis Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 AIM EYE FOR THE TROPICS TOURISM, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FRAMING THE CARIBBEAN UJ Krista A. Thompson Durham and London...

...Shirley Samuels Copyright © 2006 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2006 Death and Photography Shirley Samuels P hotography has made visible the obscenity of Till man's hate ended all. -And so man weaves. death for more than 150 years. In the early...

... photographer who worked with Okwui on The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (Prestel, 2013). South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky, based in Johannesburg, showed work in Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (Steidl, 2006...

... these early self-portraits. Self-taught, he often returned to photography books, from which he learned techniques of double and triple exposure, juxtaposition, sandwiching, solarization, and cutouts and thus triggered his imagination and sense of exploration. This article traces the arc of Van-Leo’s early...

... of Contemporary African Art 2015 Anthony Barboza photography fashion Essence magazine the seventies ANTHONY BARBOZA IN CONVERSATION WITH BILL GASKINS Anthony Barboza, one of the first black professional “I still work. I love to work, and I...

... of this photograph to the history of photography, the history of the black photographic subject, and the challenge of relating to these images as representations of members of the human family. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 photography Good and Bad Hair Tamara and Tireka...

... it, fly- courses in the history of photography the film that are more firmly rooted in ing over it in a plane or passing by it and twentieth-­century art. She is editor, current sociocultural contexts: furtive in a ferry. McQueen’s jump cuts under- with Elizabeth Otto, of the forthcoming sexual...

.... 4. Ibid. 5. Walter Benjamin, “Little History of Photography,” in Selected Writings, ed...

... to nd out what ist, and writer. His photography of jazz musicians was going on in the music world. appears in his book Black Borders (1980). His concep- My h, and nal, shoot of Miles came in June tual photographic artwork exhibition, Black Dreams/ 1985. He called me and said...

..., today’s designers are making desirable, well-made, well-marketed collections that hang from rails all over the world. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Africa fashion textiles photography models global style A BRIEF HISTORY OF AFRICAN FASHION...

... anthro- offer an important collective story told through pological and colonial photography. Presenters multiple voices. also explored how African men and women used What makes this collection of essays so exciting photography, and later environmental portraiture, and critical is its broad focus...

...Helen Jennings From March 30 to June 9, 2014, in the coastal town of Knokke-Heist, Belgium’s international photography festival hosted an outdoor exhibition that brought together world-renowned artists whose works examine contemporary African dress practices. The continent’s burgeoning fashion...

.... Video stills, double channel SD video. Courtesy the artist Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 May 202098 Nka Waiting #3, 2003. Lithograph on BFK Rives watercolor paper, 505 x 660 mm. Courtesy the artist Searle Nka 99 Berni Searle is a South African artist who uses photography and the moving...