Main entry:

Events of the social (The Walther Collection Books)

Title & Author:

Events of the social : portraiture and collective agency : African photography from The Walther Collection / texts by Elvira Dyangani Ose.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Neu-Ulm, Germany : The Walther Collection Books ; Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2022.

Description:

199 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
"A collaboration between PhotoEspaña and The Walther Collection, the exhibition Events of the Social:Portraiture and Collective Agency--African Photography from The Walther Collection was on view from June 2 to August 22, 2021, at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid Spain and was curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose"--Page facing title page.
Foreword -- Introduction -- Reframing subjecthood I -- Reframing subjecthood II -- Body politics -- Personal narratives -- Land as subject -- Disillusionment and empowerment -- Appendix ; Installation views ; About the artists and works ; List of works ; About the Walther Collection ; About the curator

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive investigation into photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the "colonial gaze" as its starting point, Events of the Social looks at the diverse complexity of the nineteenth-century archive through a selection of vintage portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages. Three generations of African artists from the 1940s till now then chart the changing features of African societies through portraiture, exploring notions of the self, gender, sexuality, race, social status and politics. The book also examines landscape and the built environment, showing how architecture and spatial planning convey social order and ideology while reflecting experiences of migration, colonialism, war and industrialization. Another group of artists, born after the mid-1970s, explores issues of social identity, lineage, questions of belonging and personal experiences. Artists featured include Sammy Baloji, Jodi Bieber, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin, David Goldblatt, Seydou Keïta, Zanele Muholi, Malick Sidibé and Mikhael Subotzky. Exhibition: Círculo de Bellas Artes/Salle Picasso, Madrid, Spain (02.06. - 22.08.2021).

ISBN:

9783969990872 (paperback)
3969990874 (paperback)

Subject:

Walther Collection Exhibitions.
Walther Collection
Documentary photography Africa Exhibitions.
Group identity Africa Pictorial works.
Photographie documentaire Afrique Expositions.
Identité collective Afrique Ouvrages illustrés.
Documentary photography
Group identity
Africa

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Dyangani Ose, Elvira, author, organizer.
Walther Collection, organizer.
Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain), host institution.
PHotoEspaña (Festival). organizer.

Portraiture and collective agency : African photography from The Walther Collection

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318247
Call No.: 318247
Copy: 1
Status: Available