Ideas of Africa : portraiture and political imagination /
"The independence movements that swept the African continent in the 1960s coincided with an exhilarating campaign for civil rights in the United States. These transformative struggles, reverberating across the Atlantic and beyond, formed a call and response that established "Africa" a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The Museum of Modern Art,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "The independence movements that swept the African continent in the 1960s coincided with an exhilarating campaign for civil rights in the United States. These transformative struggles, reverberating across the Atlantic and beyond, formed a call and response that established "Africa" as a political idea. "Ideas of Africa: portraiture and political imagination" examines the role of portrait photography within this emerging sense of Pan-Africanism, bringing together photographs by inventive image-makers from West and Central Africa--including Jean Depara, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and Sanlé Sory--alongside contemporary works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Samuel Fosso, and Silvia Rosi"-- Publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 14, 2025 - July 25, 2026. |
| Physical Description: | 137 pages : portraits (some color), color illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-129). |
| ISBN: | 9781633451711 1633451712 |