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Maske (Hardcover)
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For over two decades, Phyllis Galembo has documented cultural and
religious traditions in Africa and among the African Diaspora.
Traveling widely throughout western and central Africa, and
regularly to Haiti, her subjects are participants in masquerade
events-traditional African ceremonies and contemporary costume
parties and carnivals- who use costume, body paint, and masks to
create mythic characters. Sometimes entertaining and humorous,
often dark and frightening, her portraits document and describe the
transformative power of the mask. With a title derived from the
Haitian Creole word maske, meaning "to wear a mask", this album
features a selection of over a hundred of the best of Galembo's
masquerade photographs to date organized in country-based chapters,
each with her own commentary. The book is introduced by art
historian and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu (himself a masquerade
participant during his childhood in Nigeria), for whom Galembo's
photographs raise questions about the survival and evolution of
masquerade tradition in the twenty-first century.
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