Events of the social : portraiture and collective agency : African photography from The Walther Collection /

Events of the social : portraiture and collective agency : African photography from The Walther Collection /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:	Events of the social (The Walther Collection Books)
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Neu-Ulm, Germany : The Walther Collection Books ; Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2022.
Description:	199 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Walther Collection -- Exhibitions. Walther Collection. Documentary photography -- Africa -- Exhibitions. Group identity -- Africa -- Pictorial works. Documentary photography. Group identity. Africa. Exhibition catalogs. Pictorial works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12955926

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Varying Form of Title:	Portraiture and collective agency : African photography from The Walther Collection
Other authors / contributors:	Dyangani Ose, Elvira, author, organizer. Walther Collection, organizer. Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain), host institution. PHotoEspaña (Festival). organizer.
ISBN:	9783969990872 3969990874
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.
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).

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
Reframing
Reframing
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