商品簡介
Photographic portraiture has long been one of the principal expressions of popular art in Africa, but, from the nineteenth-century to independence, the thematic scope was largely limited to the sitter’s identity and social standing. So widely established is the great African tradition of portrait photography that it has eclipsed the rise of richer and more varied forms of expression that articulate a range of pressing contemporary concerns. Drawing on an exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, The Expanded Subject offers a reconsideration of contemporary African photographic portraiture by presenting four photographers―Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saidou Dicko, and George Osodi―whose concerns range well beyond questions of identity and social standing. Although each of the photographers approaches the genre differently, all four challenge the assump
作者簡介
Joshua I. Cohen is assistant professor in the Art Department at the City College of New York and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History, Columbia University. Sandrine Colard and Giulia Paoletti are PhD candidates in the Department of Art History, Columbia University.
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