Main entry:

Sealy, Mark, author, interviewer. aut ivr

Title & Author:

Photography : race, rights and representation / Mark Sealy.

Publication:

Chadwell Heath : Lawrence and Wishart Limited, 2022.
©2022

Description:

191 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
(from table of contents) Introduction -- Photography, representation and jazz. 1. On being in limbo ; 2. Moments outside the frame ; 3. On Joy Gregory, "Autoportrait" (1989-90) ; 4. The decolonial logic ; 5. "The Memory of Hope" (2017) by Aïda Muluneh ; 6. On Wilfred Ukpong -- Human rights, human wrongs. 7. Disposable people: contemporary global slavery ; 8. Beyond the lens ; 9. The event in focus (is not over) ; 10. Notes on "Towards a Promised Land" (2005-06), by Wendy Ewald ; 11. The canvases of representation and the photographs of Nontsikelelo Veleko ; 12. Label cultural baggage -- Black Atlantic. 13. Ward four and more ; 14. James VanDerZee: Harlem's black photographer ; 15. When existence alone is constant torture ; 16. A note from outside, on Rotimi Fani-Kayode ; 17. A gathering of souls ; 18. On Faisal Abdu'Allah -- Future-facing people. 19. Critical conjunctures ; 20. Every photograph has a story ; 21. Between feeling and time: Brent in the 1980s and 1990s ; 22. On John Goto ; 23. Masterji: the photographs of Maganbhai Patel ; 24. The triumph of optimism -- Experiments with time. 25. "From Here to Eternity" (1999) ; 26. Absence and presence: the work of Oscar Muñoz ; 27. "Drowning World" (2007-2018) by Gideon Mendel ; 28. Travelling backwards: "The mother of all journeys" (2007) ; 29. Waiting ; 30. Nothing is forever -- Photography: promises to make a revolution. 31. In five short acts ; 32. Lumumba framed in colonial time ; 33. The photographs of Eustáquio Neves ; 34. What have 'we' done with the image of Africa? ; 35. "Les Bijoux I-IX" (2002), Maud Sulter ; 36. How does the south appear on empire's art map?

Summary:

"Weaving together analyses of work by Black photographers in the UK and internationally, interviews with key figures and personal reflections on the changing landscape of Black photography, this book offers an exploration of the past, present and future of decolonial visual practices. Mark Sealy sets out a new path for photography - jazz-like, sensorial and experimental - in order to free it from the classifying colonial lens, offering the reader the opportunity to move both conceptually and spiritually into new visual realms when reading an image"-- Back cover.
"Weaving together analyses of work by black photographers in the UK and internationally, interviews with key figures and personal reflections on the changing landscape of photography, this book offers an exploration of the past, present and future of decolonial visual practices. Mark Sealy sets out a new path for photography - jazz-like, sensorial and experimental - in order to free it from the classifying colonial lens, offering the reader the opportunity to move both conceptually and spiritually into new visual realms when reading an image."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

ISBN:

9781913546335 paperback
1913546330 paperback
ebook
9781913546342

Subject:

Photography Social aspects.
Photographers, Black Great Britain.
Race in art.
Photographie Aspect social.
Photographes noirs Grande-Bretagne.
Race dans l'art.
Photographic criticism.
Photography History.
Photography Philosophy.
Imperialism History.
Racism Political aspects History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order