... considers how portrait photography was not an expression of a local modernity, in the way the concept is narrated in established studies of the cultural dimensions of globalization, but was an expression of the in-between. This can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism or creolization, depending...

... professor of art and American studies at Cornell University, a female model to pose with them, so I called Grace and Bill Gaskins explores questions about photography and the another model. They supplied her with a black leather outfit. portrait in the twenty-first century. A critical entry point...

... with the popular idea of Negro looking the viewer directly in the eyes—without ignorance, degradation and imbecility.”1 smiling. With the invention of photography, Douglass Encounters with portraits of African Americans came to believe that photographs could chal- can often reveal aspects of the viewers...

...Renée Mussai Born in 1929 in Accra, then the Gold Coast colony, James Barnor began his career in photography typically, as an apprentice in a colonial portrait studio of a relative, his cousin J. P. Dodoo. But in a unique career spanning more than six decades, bridging continents and photographic...

... 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 postcolonial studio photography, what can be agreed is that the agency of the por• traitist is inescapably found in each and every portrait.-1 Susan Vogel, in her film Malick Sidibe: Portrait of the Artist as a Portraitist becomes implicated as par• ticipant by simply titling the wonderful...

...Richard J. Powell The most iconic image that accompanied the 1996 publication of 20th Century Photography: Museum Ludwig, Cologne —and one that continues to intrigue scholars of black diasporic visual culture—was the German photographer Charlotte March’s black-and-white photograph Donyale Luna...

..., photography, television, and video are revealed in a recent conversation with Selene Wendt. Topics include how and why he became interested in video as a medium, the development of video as a medium, and issues related to his transnational identity. A significant part of the interview relates to his seminal...

... of the details that Frazier captures in her photographs reveal a much more complex portrait of the effects of, among other things, poverty, environmental pollution, and the failures of the health-care system in the lives of ordinary Black people. Photography gave Frazier a tool to reckon with her feelings about...

... I think one ther Collection in Neu- Ulm, Germany, in June 2010. The exhibition problem is pigeonholing photographers who are either making included a dual presentation of portrait photography by August Sander war or conflict photography or fashion and street photogra- and Seydou Keïta. phy...

... at the genital,” Portrait photography often promises to deliver “the Negro symbolizes the biological,” “the Negro a realistic “likeness” of the subject as conveyed represents the sexual instinct (in its raw state in the face. In defiance of this photographic gaze, Fanon tells us this repeatedly...

... of photography and thus the meaning of a photograph is its reference to the photographed object. In the case of the self- portrait...

..., it considers how both artists speak back, almost inadvertently, to photography (as a prevailing mode of representation) through painting and drawing.7 In Palmer s painting, the family album has been a notable source and influ- ence. Walker s earlier portraits of individuals and depictions of the marketplace...

... a broader scope of the politics of embodiment and the formation of a modern Ethiopian identity, one that specifically celebrated the successes of the Ethiopian monarchy. Copyright © 2017 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017 modernization portraiture fashion Ethiopia photography...

..., or a marriage, with an individual or group portrait. In 1929, photography was taught by the University of Helwan s Faculty of Applied Arts in Giza. Amateur societies and school photography clubs followed in the 1930s, each with its respective exhibitions. A coterie of influential, cultivated pashas and beys...

... in photography on thecontinent through images Madagascar. Little was supplied in terms of historical or produced by African photographers over the past ISO aesthetic context. There was a strong reference to anti- years. Since its arrival in Africa...

... Nimis, "Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography" in African Arts 40, University Press, 2003). no. 1 (Spring 2007): p. 93. 24 Kobena Mercer, "Home from Home: Portraits from Places ® Haney and Nimis seem to recognize...

... Interview Self-portrait, 1949 silver gelatin print, edition of 10, paper: 24 x 20 inches 1921-2001 image: 22 x 15-112 inches (approximately), framed: 32 x 24-5/8 inches eydou Kei'ta was a sage, uals...

... by Z news reporting in the political turmoil of previous decade. Whereas news photography would use black and white both for the sake of media reproduction and to communicate the sense of factual objectivity that docu• mentary...

... for sale to any pro• While the portrait may be a quintes• ducer. Thus, photography and street spaces sential modern, bourgeois form, both hon• are counterpoints to televisual...