Embodying Relation - Art Photography in Mali

Allison Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement that blossomed in Bamako, Mali, in the 1990s, showing contemporary Malian photography to be a rich example of Western notions of art meeting traditional cultural precepts to forge new artistic forms, practices, and communities.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: A Poetics of Relation  1
1. Unknown Photographer (Bamako, Mali)  27
2. Malian Portraiture Glamorized and Globalized  62
3. Biennale Effects: The African Photography Encounters  98
4. Bamako Becoming Photographic: An Archipelagic Art World  145
5. Creolizing the Archive: Photographers at the National Museum  171
6. Promoting Women Photographers  210
7. Errantry, the Social Body, and Photography as the Écho-monde  249
Conclusion  276
Notes  281
Bibliography  325
Index

About the author

Allison Moore

Summary

Allison Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement that blossomed in Bamako, Mali, in the 1990s, showing contemporary Malian photography to be a rich example of Western notions of art meeting traditional cultural precepts to forge new artistic forms, practices, and communities.

Product details

• Authors: Allison Moore
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781478006626
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0662-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Art History Publication Initiative; Art History Publication Initia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous