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Santu Mofokeng - The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890-1950 (Hardcover)
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Santu Mofokeng - The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890-1950 (Hardcover)
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This book is a reproduction of an artwork, bearing the same title,
by Santu Mofokeng. The work, which is as much a research project as
it is a work of art, is comprised of private photographs collected,
scanned, and retouched over a number of years by the artist. Each
of the original images were commissioned by urban black working and
middle-class families in South Africa between 1890 and 1950, a time
when the government was entrenching its infamous policies towards
those designated as "natives." Painterly in style, the images evoke
the artifices of Victorian photography and reveal something about
how the people captured within the frame imagined themselves,
asking meditative questions on the meaning of African imagery: "Who
were these people?," "What were their aspirations?," "Are these
images evidence of mental colonization or did they serve to
challenge prevailing images of `The African' in the western world?"
In this work Mofokeng thus analyses the sensibilities, aspirations
and self-image of the urban black population in South Africa and
its desire for representation and social recognition in times of
colonial rule and suppression. This book contains the complete
sequence of slides with reproduced photographs and Mofokeng's own
texts. The Black Photo Album / Look at Me: 1890-1950 also features
selections from Mofokeng's field notes and the original,
unretouched photographs, published for the first time.
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