Title & Author:

African photographer J.A. Green : reimagining the indigenous and the colonial / edited by Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson ; with Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa, Tam Fiofori, and Christraud M. Geary.

Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2017]

Description:

xv, 381 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.

Series:

African expressive cultures

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Green in Context -- Picture of the Niger Delta / Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa -- Early Photographers in Coastal Nigeria and the Afterlife of Their Images, 1860-1930 / Christraud M. Geary -- Green and His Oeuvre -- Image Maker Jonathan Adagogo Green and His Practice / Lisa Aronson -- J. A. Green's Portraits: Picturing People in the Niger Delta / Lisa Aronson -- Gallery -- Viewing Green through Expatriate Eyes -- Differing Views: Imperial Agendas and Personal Histories / Martha G. Anderson -- Envisioning Africa: From Ethnographic Types to Picturesque Views / Martha G. Anderson -- The "Performative" Aspects of Green's Photographs -- Telling Histories: J. A. Green's Photographs in Colonial Albums and Western Publications / Martha G. Anderson -- Green's Photos and the Visualizing and Reinventing of Ijo Histories / Lisa Aronson -- J. A. Green: Pioneer and Legend / Tam Fiofori.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture, 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780253028952 paperback
0253028957 paperback

Subject:

Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905.
Photographers Nigeria Biography.
Documentary photography Nigeria.
Photographes Nigeria Biographies.
Photographie documentaire Nigeria.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Documentary photography.
Photographers.
Dokumentarfotografie
Porträtfotografie
Fotograf
Nigeria History 20th century Sources.
Niegeria Histoire 20e siècle Sources.
Nigeria Histoire 20e siècle Sources.
Nigeria.

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Sources.

Added entries:

Anderson, Martha G., 1948- editor.
Aronson, Lisa, editor.
Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905, photographer (expression). Photographs. Selections.
Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905. Photographs. Selections.
African expressive cultures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307469
Call No.: BIB 252947
Status: Available