In and out of focus : Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960
Onomastique
Casimir ZagourskiGéographique
Afrique centrale, République démocratique du Congo (RDC), mangbetu, kuba, Léopoldville = KinshasaThématique
photographie, image, clichéDisciplinaire
histoire de l'art, communicationFiche validée
| Titre | In and out of focus : Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960 |
|---|---|
| Type de publication | Livre |
| Année de publication | 2002 |
| Auteur | Christraud GEARY |
| Collaborateur, traducteur | Krzysztof PLUSKOTA |
| Éditeur | Philip Wilson Smithsonian National Museum on African Art |
| Ville | London Washington (DC) |
| Genre | beau-livre - catalogue |
| Pays d'édition | États-Unis |
| ISBN (Forme EAN-13) | 9780856675515 |
| Résumé/Présentation | Catalogue d'exposition. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition In and out of focus : images from Central Africa, 1885-1960, organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, December 6, 2002-March 16, 2003" / "This book is the first major publication to explore and link two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas, and sentiments in Europe and the US relating to peoples of Africa and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project and create images of themselves during encounters with foreign photographers, thus becoming familiar with photographic technology." Contient : "Foreword -- Past and present designations -- A world of images. Photography and physical anthropology ; The creation of a Central African image world ; Africans and the image world -- Central Africa in popular imagery. Late 19th-century in the Central African Coast ; The Congo Free State and its imagery, 1885-1908 ; Photographs from the Congo Free State in present-day perspective ; Imagery and the anti-Léopold Campaign ; L'illustration Congolaise and the circulation of images between 1924 and 1940 ; Royal visits, car rallies and tourism ; Colonial ministries and the dissemination of imagery -- Atelier PHOTO cinématographique, C. Zagourski. Eastern Europe and Asia, 1883-1924 ; Léopoldville, Belgian Congo, 1924-1944 / by Krzysztof Pluskota -- The image world of Casimir Zagourski. Business matters ; "Vanishing Africa," a documentary film in stills --, Africans and photography. The elegant Mangbetu ; The aristocratic Tutsi ; The artistic Kuba ; Early African photographers ; The portrait session ; From private portraits to public images. (Worldcat 09.2019) |
| Référence complète | Geary, Chistraud M. In and out of focus : Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960. [with an essay by Krzysztof Pluskota]. Washington : Smithsonian National Museum on African Art, 2002, 128 p., ill., 31 cm |
