Moore Allison Moore

Embodying Relation (eBook, PDF)

Art Photography in Mali

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Keita and Malick Sidibe 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. In her detailed discussion of Bamakois artistic aesthetics and institutions, Moore examines the post-fame careers of Keita and Sidibe, the biennale's structure, the rise of women photographers, cultural preservation through photography, and how Mali's shift to democracy in the early 1990s enabled Bamako's art scene to flourish. Moore shows how Malian photographers' focus on cultural exchange, affective connections with different publics, and merging of traditional cultural precepts with modern notions of art embody Caribbean philosopher and poet Edouard Glissant's notion of "e;relation"e; in ways that spark new artistic forms, practices, and communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478007340
• Artikelnr.: 66282512

Autorenporträt

Allison Moore

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: A Poetics of Relation  1
1. Unknown Photographer (Bamako, Mali)  27
2. Malian Portraiture Glamorized and Globalized  62
3. Biennale Effects: The African Photography Encounters  98
4. Bamako Becoming Photographic: An Archipelagic Art World  145
5. Creolizing the Archive: Photographers at the National Museum  171
6. Promoting Women Photographers  210
7. Errantry, the Social Body, and Photography as the Écho-monde  249
Conclusion  276
Notes  281
Bibliography  325
Index