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Book Synopsis"Stunning and vibrant, the studio portrait photography of Omar Victor Diop is breathtakingly brilliant." — Amateur Photographer
Since 2012, Dakar-born Omar Victor Diop has been hailed by the art world for his stunning, colour-saturated studio photography. His conceptual projects are primarily staged as beautifully costumed portraits and self-portraits, and focus on important historical figures and events from Black history and the African diaspora. In the three projects presented in this book, Diaspora (2014), Liberty (2017) and Allegory (2021), he revisits Black African history in poignant photographs that weave together the past and the present.
Text in English and French.
Trade Review"In 2016, the Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop began what he calls the “liberty project”, dramatising in his studio defining moments of black history." - Tim Adams, The Guardian
"Stunning and vibrant, the studio portrait photography of Omar Victor Diop is breathtakingly brilliant." - Amateur Photographer
Table of ContentsSOMMAIRE CONTENTS 06 L’épiphanie du visage : les libérations visuelles d’Omar Victor Diop The Epiphany of the Face: Omar Victor Diop’s Visual Liberations Renée Mussai 10 ALLEGORIA 36 Image noire, esprits noirs : histoire, photographie et politique raciale dans l’oeuvre d’Omar Victor Diop The Black Image in the Black Mind: History, Photography, and the Politics of Race in the Work of Omar Victor Diop Imani Perry 40 LIBERTY 62 Entrevue avec Omar Victor Diop Interview with Omar Victor Diop Marvin Adoul 66 DIASPORA 94 Annexes Appendices
