Africa
in the View of the Photographers

Editor(s)

Arno Harth, Frank Krämer, Michael Schley

Author(s)

John Fleetwood, Sean O’Toole, Frank Krämer

Design

Glas AG

Size

24 x 28 cm

Pages

104

Illustrations

58

Cover

Softcover

Language(s)

German, English

ISBN

978-3-947563-95-1

Contemporary Photography from Africa

Stereotypes still dominate the Western image of Africa; we tend to know little about cities like Lagos, Porto-Novo, or Kinshasa. The book presents photographs by African artists who tell stories from everyday life in the metropolises, of the unruliness of nature and industry, of traces of the past and pop culture. Osborne Macharia, for example, interweaves Kenya’s cultural identity with fictional Afro-futuristic plots; Yoriyas documents the small moments of life in his native Casablanca in pictures that have been picked up by the New York Times, National Geographic, and Vogue; Alice Mann’s intimate essays in portraiture, meanwhile, explore ideas about the making of pictures as a collaborative act. With additional works by Ilan Godfrey, Fabrice Monteiro, Kibuuka Mukisa Oscar, Léonard Pongo, and Fethi Sahraoui, the book offers a profoundly original survey of African realities.

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Laura Schawelka
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