EAN: 9783969990872

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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. Co-published with The Walther Collection Neu-Ulm and New York

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