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| Genre/Form: | Exhibitions Portraits Exhibitions Pictorial works Exhibitions |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christraud M Geary; Krzysztof Pluskota; National Museum of African Art (U.S.) |
| ISBN: | 0856675512 9780856675515 0856675520 9780856675522 |
| OCLC Number: | 54965899 |
| Notes: | "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"--T.p. verso. Most of the photographs are from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, a dept. of the National Museum of African Art. |
| Description: | 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Christraud M. Geary ; with an essay by Krzysztof Pluskota. |
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"Christraud Geary examines the way photographic images helped create our perception of Africa."--Robert Armstrong, Minneapolis Star-Tribune<br>
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- Indigenous peoples -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
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