Events of the social (The Walther Collection Books)

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

First edition.

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

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

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).

9783969990872 (paperback)
3969990874 (paperback)

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

Exhibition catalogs
Pictorial works

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

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 318247
Cote: 318247
Exemplaire: 1
Statut: Disponible