ISBN:
9781620403532
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1620403536
Language:
English
Pages:
XXV, 207 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Parallel Title:
Online version McKinley, Catherine E. African lookbook
DDC:
305.4096
Keywords:
Women / Africa / History
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Women / Africa / Social conditions
;
Women / Africa / Pictorial works
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Women
;
Women / Social conditions
;
Africa
;
Women
;
Women / Pictorial works
;
History
;
Illustrated works
;
Pictorial works
;
Illustrated works
;
Bildband
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Bildband
Abstract:
McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history of African women across centuries. These images tell how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. She shows that, while African studios captured the dignity, austerity, and grandeur of African women, photos by Europeans are mostly nudes, revealing the relationships of white men and Black females: at best, a grave power imbalance. -- adapted from jacket
Description / Table of Contents:
Heritage: the African masters, 1900s-1970s. - With a certain eye: the colonial studio, 1870-1957. - Dressing and undressing, 1900-1940. - Clothes for a new nation: independence and post-independence, 1957-1970s.
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