Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe pioneering role of J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo) Green's photographic artistry is painstakingly resurrected and perceptively examined in this magisterial study, beautifully produced in large format by the Indiana University Press.
* Journal of Folklore Research *
"[Green] practiced for only 14 years but the legacy of pictorial history that he created has been given proper focus by the impeccable, collaborative research and interpretative conceptualism of this volume of essays and commentaries edited with guidance from Prof. Alagoa.
* The Guardian *
"The publication of the book in 2017 has effectively peeled the layer of anonymity from Mr. Green who's work was published in leading publications across the world but who remained largely unknown for decades. . . This landmark book unifies these dispersed photographic images of Jonathan Adagogo Green and presents a history of the photographer and the area and times in which he worked."
* Premium Times *
Apart from bringing to light one of Africa's underexposed photographers, this much-needed volume offers profoundly generative theoretical frameworks for considering the roles photography has played both on and off the continent in the colonial period and beyond.
* African Arts *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
A Note Regarding Captions
Introduction
Part One: Green in Context
1. Picture of the Niger Delta / Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa
2. Early Photographers in Coastal Nigeria and the Afterlife of Their Images, 1860-1930 / Christraud M. Geary
Part Two: Green and His Oeuvre
3. Image Maker Jonathan Adagogo Green and his Practice / Lisa Aronson
4. J. A. Green's Portraits: Picturing People in the Niger Delta / Lisa Aronson
Part Three: Viewing Green through Expatriate Eyes
5. Differing Views: Imperial Agendas and Personal Histories / Martha G. Anderson
6. Envisioning Africa: From Ethnographic Types to Picturesque Views / Martha G. Anderson
Part Four: The "Performative" Aspects of Green's Photographs
7. Telling Histories: J. A. Green's Photographs in Colonial Albums and Western Publications / Martha G. Anderson
8. Green's Photos and the Visualizing and Reinventing of Ijo Histories / Lisa Aronson
9. J. A. Green: Pioneer and Legend / Tam Fiofori
Appendix: Timeline
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index
