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Discussions of West African portrait photography tend to gravitate towards the 1960s and 1970s, the era of such well-known artists as Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and Samuel Fosso.

Right: Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1910. Unknown Artist (Senegal) By 1920, a number of studios had emerged in urban centers, and, in the decades to come, middle-class Africans sought them out.

LONDON -- A new portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, has been unveiled at the 19th century monarch’s home on the Isle of Wight, as part of the conservation ...

Voices of African Photography is a 10-part series presented in partnership with the African Photojournalism Database, a joint project of Everyday Africa and World Press Photo, to highlight the ...

TROY – The 1840s watercolor portrait of Peter F. Baltimore, an African-American with a prominent role in the Capital Region's 19th-century abolitionist movement, will be back home early next ...

Voices of African Photography is a 10-part series presented in partnership with Everyday Africa and the African Photojournalism Database to highlight the work of 10 African photographers.

Floyd’s portrait was retrieved from the trash at Crossbreeze Care Center on 1755 18th St. and taken to Grimes, who runs the Newtown Historical Gallery on Osprey Avenue in Sarasota, Grimes said.

From a description of the print now, in 2017, it sounds perfectly traditional. A black-and-white etching on paper, an art form that has been around for 500 years. A portrait of a woman. In the ...

In 1619 the White Lion, a British privateer which had just successfully raided a Spanish slave ship, arrived in the Jamestown colony with its contraband cargo of twenty-some African slaves.Thus began ...