Life and Afterlife: In Benin by Benoit Adjovi
A haunting, and historically important, collection of black and white portrait photography made in the West African country of Benin in the 1960s and 1970s, printed and published for the first time
Life and Afterlife
Summary
A new chapter in the history of African and world photography.
Life and Afterlife Summary
Life and Afterlife Reviews
Remarkable.-Sunday Telegraph magazine
Fascinating.-Amateur Photographer
About Benoit Adjovi
Okwui Enwezor is a poet, a critic and the curator of many influential exhibitions including Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany, in 2002. He is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Columbia, Pittsburgh, and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Alex van Gelder is an artist, a poet and a collector of African art, who has, since 2000, discovered and conserved the work of a number of photographers active in Benin during the post-war period.
Table of Contents
Preface by Alex van Gelder * Introduced by Urs Stahel, director of Fotomuseum, Winterthur * 80 - 85 duotone plates * 4,000 word essay by Okwui Enwezor * Bibliographic and background information on each photographer compiled by Benoit Adjovi
Additional information
CIN0714845132VG
9780714845135
0714845132
Life and Afterlife: In Benin by Benoit Adjovi
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Phaidon Press Ltd
20050516
136
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