Michael Stevenson, Michael Graham - Stewart

Surviving the Lens
Photographic Studies of South and East African People, 1870 - 1920

HC 28 x 30,5 cm., 140 pp.
Fernwood Press 2001
EURO 42.00

This selection of fifty compelling photographs of people from south and east Africa offers an opportunity to re-evaluate the colonial photography of these regions. During this era, indigenous subjects usually struggled to retain their dignity and composure in the exploitative lens of the European traveller, tourist, scientist and commercial photographer. In those instances when the sitter's humanity survived the racial prejudices and technology of the time, the images often transcend their role as historical records and can be seen as provocative and poignant works of art.

Andere Titel von Michael Stevenson:

The photography of John Muir Wood
The Mlungu in Africa
Distant Relatives / Relative Distance
Take your road and along

Ausstellungen von/mit Michael Stevenson

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06.04. - 19.06.2011: MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUS
11.06. - 08.08.2010: 6. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst - , berlin biennale für zeitgenöss, Berlin, D
07.06. - 01.09.2008: Not Quite How I Remember It , The Power Plant, Toronto, CDN
27.08. - 18.09.2005: Jahresgaben 2005 , NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, D
27.08. - 18.09.2005: The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies - Das Twodo-Projekt , NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, D