{"product_id":"embodying-relation-9781478006626","title":"Embodying Relation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEmbodying Relation\u003c\/i\u003e Allison Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement in Bamako, Mali, which blossomed in the 1990s after Malian photographers Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé became internationally famous and the Bamako Photography Biennale was founded. Moore traces the trajectory of Malian photography from the 1880s—when photography first arrived as an apparatus of French colonialism—to the first African studio practitioners of the 1930s and the establishment in 1994 of the Bamako Biennale, Africa''s most important continent-wide photographic exhibition. In her detailed discussion of Bamakois artistic aesthetics and institutions, Moore examines the post-fame careers of Keïta and Sidibé, the biennale''s structure, the rise of women photographers, cultural preservation through photography, and how Mali''s shift to democracy in the early 1990s enabled Bamako''s art scene to flourish. Moore show\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Allison Moore's \u003ci\u003eEmbodying Relation\u003c\/i\u003e examines the history of the Bamako art photography movement through its institutions and its aesthetics and the profound effect of transnational encounters on the agency of art photographers in Mali. She provides art historians with a comprehensive analysis of the most important site of photography discourse in Africa, thus bridging the disciplinary boundaries that usually narrate African cultural production outside the pale of art history. Research in photography in Africa provides a great platform for linking African art history to global art history by locating both in a coeval contemporaneity. As such, the importance of Moore's orientation for art history cannot be overemphasized.” -- Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, author of * Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Poetics of Relation  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Unknown Photographer (Bamako, Mali)  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Malian Portraiture Glamorized and Globalized  62\u003cbr\u003e 3. Biennale Effects: The African Photography Encounters  98\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bamako Becoming Photographic: An Archipelagic Art World  145\u003cbr\u003e 5. Creolizing the Archive: Photographers at the National Museum  171\u003cbr\u003e 6. Promoting Women Photographers  210\u003cbr\u003e 7. Errantry, the Social Body, and Photography as the Écho-monde  249\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  276\u003cbr\u003e Notes  281\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  325\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408980255063,"sku":"9781478006626","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478006626.jpg?v=1730504950","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/embodying-relation-9781478006626","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}