AFRICA.VISUAL_MEDIA

COLOPHON: Do not attempt to adjust your monitor you have come to the right place. I am just continuing my search for a suitable theme for this site. Not overly thrilled with this one either, so I will be dusting off my rusty config skills to tweak it to suit.

Screenshot of Carol Pineau’s film […]

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NYC in the summer is all about the embarrassment of riches that is free concerts and events. Seun Kuti was at Central Park, Salif Keita, Oliver Mtukudzi and Habib Koite played in Brooklyn. Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick played nearby, and I am sure I missed a myriad of other events at other smaller […]

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Screenshot from “Afrocentric” slideshow featured in New York Times Magazine
PAOLO ROVERSI: Afrocentric [NYT, registration req’d]: Paolo Roversi’s visual style is unmistakable: painterly colors, camera blur, timeless-looking subjects and clothing, resulting in images that look more like 19th century painting than 21st century photographs. His breathtaking images and deep knowledge of photography/art history put him […]

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M & G Soul Food Diner, 125th Street Harlem
PHOTOGRAPHY: Invincible Cities, Camilo Vergara photos of the “unmaking of a ghetto” taken in Harlem from 1970’s to 2007.

ILLUSTRATION: Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas

Screenshot from Aperture web site
PHOTOGRAPHY: The Black Panthers: Photographs of Stephen Shames. Great book.

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Screen shot of Jean Depara’s images from the Fifty One Fine Art Photography website
Jean Depara: Angola-born photographer who documented la dolce vita in Kinshasa in the 50’s and 60’s; he was also Franco’s official photographer.

Screen shot of Samuel Fosso’s series “African Spirits” at the Jean Marc Patras Galerie website
Samuel Fosso: African Spirits. Samuel Fosso started […]

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Screenshot of Tillim’s child soldier image series on Michael Stevenson gallery web site
Guy Tillim: Soldiers.
Guy Tillim is one of South Africa’s foremost contemporary photographers. Learning his trade as photojournalist nearly two decades ago, Tillim’s oeuvre has proven to be far more than that of orthodox reportage. His photographs have become increasingly recontextualised as art […]

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Detail of the July issue of Italian Vogue
I recently picked up a copy of the July Italian (”A Black Issue”) Vogue to see what the big deal was. There are few places better than the fashion rags to see the current state of fashion/editorial art, so at the newstand I occasionally reach over the Economist […]

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