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Zanele Muholi's indelible 2006 portrait, "Martin Machapa," is reproduced from new release 'Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency,' featuring 117 color and 115 black-and-white photographs from the world-renowned @walthercollect⁠ ⁠ Gathering work by three generations of artists—including Sammy Baloji, Jodi Bieber, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin, David Goldblatt, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, Mikhael Subotzky and @muholizanele among others—this volume presents a group of artists who can be seen as "agents of a postmodern paradigm shift" towards "biopolitical reflections, neocolonial critiques, gender-right advocations, ritual reactivations, multi-species theories, and political calls to action through the will of the collective," according to editor and curator @edyanganiose⁠ ⁠ Published by @steidlverlag⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #zanelimuholi #martinmachapa #eventsofthesocial #africanportraiture #portraiture #africanphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzTHRZg9j6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Kudzanai Chiurai's "The Black President" (2009) is reproduced from Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency, African Photography from The @walthercollect⁠ ⁠ This book is a comprehensive investigation of photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the “colonial gaze” as its starting point, Events of the Social looks at the diverse complexity of the 19th-century archive through a selection of vintage portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages. Three generations of African artists from the 1940s to the present chart the changing features of African societies through portraiture, exploring notions of the self, gender, sexuality, race, social status and politics.⁠ ⁠ The book also examines landscape and the built environment, showing how architecture and spatial planning convey social order and ideology while reflecting experiences of migration, colonialism, war and industrialization. Another group of artists, born after the mid-1970s, explores issues of social identity, lineage, questions of belonging and personal experiences.⁠ ⁠ Text by editor and curator @edyanganiose⁠ ⁠ Published by @steidlverlag⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #eventsofthesocial #africanportraiture #portraiture #africanphotography #KudzanaiChiurai #blackpresident https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0ICzipZPs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Seydou Keïta's "Untitled" (1952–55) is from Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency, African Photography from The @walthercollect⁠ ⁠ @edyanganiose⁠ writes: "For the modern subject, the studio is a space of transformation. Individual and group portraiture, both in the studio and on the street, is a space of actively searching for typologies and narrations in one’s immediate context. It was the main instrument available to photographers like Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé and J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere to break down mythical preconceptions of everyday life and culture in cities across the African continent. For example, Ojeikere’s hairstyles and Sidibé’s portraits are both gestures of taxonomy and serialization that sought to see the poetic in the mundane—a more conceptual than anthropological exploration, which signaled a revolutionary change in the formulation of Black subjectivity."⁠ ⁠ Published by @steidlverlag⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #eventsofthesocial #africanportraiture #portraiture #africanphotography #seydoukeita https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzuNG7JxNz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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