Amy J Staples, Flora S Kaplan

Fragile Legacies

The Photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alonge's historic photographs provide rare insight into the rituals and regalia of the Benin Court over a half-century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Giles
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 290mm x 252mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1496g
• ISBN-13: 9781907804991
• ISBN-10: 1907804994
• Artikelnr.: 44794005

Autorenporträt

Tam Fiofori is one of Nigeria s most renowned filmmakers and photographers. Jide Adenyi-Jones is a Kenyan-based, Lagos-born documentary photographer Daniel Inneh is a former minister of Edo State and secretary to Oba Erediauwa, Johnnetta Betsch Cole is Director of the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA). Amy Staples is Senior Archivist of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA). Flora S. Kaplan is the Faculty Emerita of Museum Studies at the Graduate School of Arts and Center, NYU. Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Benin, Nigeria. George Osodi is a leading Nigerian photographer and filmmaker "

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Forewords: Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Yusuf Abdallah Usman
Preface: Through the Lens of Benin-Edo Cultural Heritage: The Photography
of Chief S.O. Alonge by Theophilus Umogbai
Introduction: Preserving a Fragile Legacy: Forging Ties with a Nigerian
Community by Amy J. Staples
The Royal Court of Benin
Chapter 1
Imaging Imagining: S.O. Alonge, Photography, and Visual Culture in Benin,
Nigeria by Amy J. Staples
Chapter 2
Remembering Solomon Osagie Alonge Revisiting History by Flora Edouwaye S.
Kaplan
Chapter 3
Redeeming the Image of the Benin Monarchy and People by Tam Fiofori
Long sidebar: Photographing the Oba of Benin by George Osodi
Plates
Royal court
Benin Visual Culture
Chapter 4
Art as a Medium of Recording: Precolonial Benin Revisited by Daniel E.
Inneh
sidebar
Benin Plaques and Alonge Photographs
Chapter 5
Photographic Recordkeeping in Benin: Ancient and Modern by Kokunre
Agbontaen Eghafona
Sidebar
Commemorative Textiles
The Ideal Photo Studio
Chapter 6
The Ideal Photo Studio: S.O. Alonge as Artist-Photographer-Social
Documentarian by Amy J. Staples
sidebar: Dame Merry Oritsetimeyin Ehanire
sidebar: Francis Edo Osagie
long sidebar
Enis Ehikhamenor interview
Plates
Ideal Photo Studio
S.O. Alonge Collection [artifacts]
Notes
Selected Reading
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Photography Credits
Index
gatefold
Benin Timeline: A Selected History of the Obas