How does the south appear on empire's art map? 36. On being in limbo ; 2. Moments outside the frame ; 3. On Joy Gregory, Autoportrait (1989-90) ; 4. The decolonial logic ; 5. The Memory of Hope (2017) by Aïda Muluneh ; 6. On Wilfred Ukpong -- Human rights, human wrongs. 7. Disposable people: contemporary global slavery ; 8. Beyond the lens ; 9. The event in focus (is not over) ; 10. Notes on Towards a Promised Land (2005-06), by Wendy Ewald ; 11. The canvases of representation and the photographs of Nontsikelelo Veleko ; 12. Label cultural baggage -- Black Atlantic. 13. Ward four and more ; 14. James VanDerZee: Harlem's black photographer ; 15. When existence alone is constant torture ; 16. A note from outside, on Rotimi Fani-Kayode ; 17. A gathering of souls ; 18. On Faisal Abdu'Allah -- Future-facing people. 19. Critical conjunctures ; 20. Every photograph has a story ; 21. Between feeling and time: Brent in the 1980s and 1990s ; 22. On John Goto ; 23. Masterji: the photographs of Maganbhai Patel ; 24. The triumph of optimism -- Experiments with time. 25. From Here to Eternity (1999) ; 26. Absence and presence: the work of Oscar Muñoz ; 27. Drowning World (2007-2018) by Gideon Mendel ; 28. Travelling backwards ; 29. Waiting ; 30. Nothing is forever -- Photography: promises to make a revolution. 31. In five short acts ; 32. Lumumba framed in colonial time ; 33. The photographs of Eustáquio Neves ; 34. What have 'we' done with the image of Africa? ; 35. Les Bijoux I-IX (2002), Maud Sulter ; 36. How does the south appear on empire's art map?
Summary:
"Weaving together analyses of work by Black photographers in the UK and internationally, interviews with key figures and personal reflections on the changing landscape of Black photography, this book offers an exploration of the past, present and future of decolonial visual practices. Mark Sealy sets out a new path for photography - jazz-like, sensorial and experimental - in order to free it from the classifying colonial lens, offering the reader the opportunity to move both conceptually and spiritually into new visual realms when reading an image"-- Back cover.
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