Hinting at life’s fragility, this tagline underscored photography’s ability to capture a fleeting likeness and preserve it for posterity. Portraits in the impressive whole-plate format—measuring 8.5 × ...

In 2016, writer and researcher Amy Sall started teaching a course at The New School, titled ‘The African Gaze: Visual Culture of Post-Colonial Africa and the Social Imagination’. An introductory but ...

He was catapulted from a career as a studio photographer in a small African city to worldwide recognition in 1994, when his self-portraits won an award in the first photography biennial in Bamako ...

G ustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million. It is currently on offer at an art fair but even more exciting than the price is the story behind it.For the longest ...

A new book, Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840 - 1960, takes an in-depth look at the development of the art form during a particularly tumultuous period in the country's history.

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

Right: A 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch daguerreotype portrait with applied color of an unidentified boy by James P. Ball. Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection of Early African American ...

A popular choice among first-timers at Hadiani, and one of Elhadj’s personal favorites, is attieke, a couscous-like side dish from the Ivory Coast made from fermented, dried and grated cassava root.

A Gustav Klimt portrait of an African prince that was lost after World War II is on view at TEFAF Maastricht, bearing a €15 million ($16.4 million) price tag.

This chapter charts the rise of portrait photography – first in customers’ homes, then in purpose-built studios, meeting the needs of what the curators describe as the “emerging African ...

Culture; Books & the Arts; November 7, 2022; Martine Syms’s Portrait of Art School Alienation Martine Syms’s Portrait of Art School Alienation With her feature film The African Desperate, the ...