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Todd Webb In Africa - Outside The Frame (Hardcover): Aim ee Bessire, Erin Hyde Nolan Todd Webb In Africa - Outside The Frame (Hardcover)
Aim ee Bessire, Erin Hyde Nolan; Contributions by Ali Jimale Ahmed, James Barnor, Rehema Chachage, …
R1,320 R1,019 Discovery Miles 10 190 Save R301 (23%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Todd Webb is largely known for his skillful photographic documentation of everyday life and architecture in cities, most notably New York and Paris, as well as his photographs of the American West. This new book showcases a different side of Webb’s work, taken from an assignment that took him to eight African countries.

In 1958, Webb was invited by the United Nations to document Togoland (now Togo), Ghana, Kenya, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi), Somaliland (now Somalia), Sudan, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now merged as Tanzania) over a five-month assignment. Equipped with three cameras and briefed to document industrial progress, he returned with approximately 1,500 colour negatives, but less than twenty of them were published, in black and white, by the United Nations Department of Public Information. The archive was then lost for over fifty years and was only rediscovered by the Todd Webb Archive in 2017.

Todd Webb in Africa includes over 150 striking colour photographs from Webb’s African United Nations assignment. This book, and an accompanying touring exhibition, provides expert insight into Webb’s images with contributions by both African and American scholars. Accompanying essays place the photographs in their historical and artistic moment, and provide crucial insight into the role of photography in visualizing national independence and ingrained imperialism.

Postcards from Africa - Photographers of the Colonial Era (Hardcover): Christraud M. Geary Postcards from Africa - Photographers of the Colonial Era (Hardcover)
Christraud M. Geary
R1,218 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R237 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (Hardcover): David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, Henry Louis Gates The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (Hardcover)
David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, Henry Louis Gates; Edited by (associates) Karen C. C. Dalton; Contributions by Kristina Van Dyke, …
R2,613 R2,119 Discovery Miles 21 190 Save R494 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt-positioned properly as part of African history-this volume focuses on the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints, African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the European tradition, even as they engaged with Western art through the colonial encounter and the forces of globalization. This volume complements the vision of art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil who, during the 1960s, founded an image archive to collect the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research completed the historic publication of The Image of the Black in Western Art-ten books in total-beginning with Egyptian antiquities and concluding with images that span the twentieth century. The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art reinvigorates the de Menil family's original mission and reorients the study of the black body with a new focus on Africa and Asia.

African Photographer J. A. Green - Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial (Paperback): Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson African Photographer J. A. Green - Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial (Paperback)
Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson; Contributions by Christraud M. Geary, Tam Fiofori, Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

J. A. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa. This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after photography reached the west coast of Africa in the 1840s, the technology and the resultant images were disseminated widely, appealing to African elites, European residents, and travelers to the region. Responding to the need for more photographs, expatriate and indigenous photographers began working along the coasts, particularly in major harbor towns. Green, whose identity remained hidden behind his English surname, maintained a photography business in Bonny along the Niger Delta. His work covered a wide range of themes including portraiture, scenes of daily and ritual life, commerce, and building. Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson, and the contributors have uncovered 350 of Green's images in archives, publications, and even albums that celebrated colonial achievements. This landmark book unifies these dispersed images and presents a history of the photographer and the area in which he worked.

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