Free Download Embodying Relation: Art Photography in Mali (Art History Publication Initiative) by Allison Moore
English | October 9, 2020 | ISBN: 1478005971, 1478006625 | True PDF | 376 pages | 40.5 MB
In Embodying Relation Allison Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement in Bamako, Mali, which blossomed in the 1990s after Malian photographers Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé became internationally famous and the Bamako Photography Biennale was founded. Moore traces the trajectory of Malian photography from the 1880s-when photography first arrived as an apparatus of French colonialism-to the first African studio practitioners of the 1930s and the establishment in 1994 of the Bamako Biennale, Africa’s most important continent-wide photographic exhibition.
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