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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Tate Modern’s breathtaking exhibition, A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, counters the camera as an imperial device and instead brings to the fore the eclectic approaches ...

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 × ...