MAMA CASSET

In 1920, at a very young age, Mama Casset (born in 1908 in Sant-Louis, Senegal) was introduced to photography by a friend of his father, the french photographer Oscar Lataque. At the beginning of the 20th century, during the same era as Mama Casset, several photographers from Saint-Louis, such Meissa Gueye or MixGuaye were competing talents, all trying to portray this bourgeoisie which the beautuful signares were part of and which can be found in Mama Casset¿s images of Dakar. They pose according to Mama¿s directions: each one of them has an innate and calculated grace which manifests itself in the tilt of the head or the way the smyle, the assured authority of a dominant woman or the seductive powers of a femme fatale, yet always with perfect dignity. There is such trust and complicity betwen the photographer and his "subjet".

Product details

• Assisted by: Mama Casset (Photographs)
• Publisher: La Fabrica
• Languages: Spanish
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 180 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 204 g
• Series: PHOTOBOLSILLO
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV