9781478005971-1478005971-Embodying Relation: Art Photography in Mali (Art History Publication Initiative)

Embodying Relation: Art Photography in Mali (Art History Publication Initiative)

ISBN-13: 9781478005971
ISBN-10: 1478005971
Author: Allison Moore
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Hardcover 376 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781478005971
ISBN-10: 1478005971
Author: Allison Moore
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Hardcover 376 pages

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Embodying Relation: Art Photography in Mali (Art History Publication Initiative) (ISBN-13: 9781478005971 and ISBN-10: 1478005971), written by authors Allison Moore, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other History (Photography & Video, Equipment, Techniques & Reference, West Africa, African History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Embodying Relation: Art Photography in Mali (Art History Publication Initiative) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 Keïta and Malick Sidibé 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 Keïta and Sidibé, 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 Édouard Glissant's notion of "relation" in ways that spark new artistic forms, practices, and communities.

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