James Barnor. The Roadmaker.
EXB Workshop| N° d'inventaire | 24053 |
| Format | 27.5 x 30 |
| Détails | 64 p., publisher's hardcover, cloth-bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791096575213 |
James Barnor
Born in 1929 in Ghana, James Barnor experienced his country's independence and the formation of the diaspora in London in the 1960s. In the early 1950s, he opened his famous Ever Young studio in Accra, where he immortalized a nation at the moment of its independence. He was one of the first photojournalists to collaborate with the Daily Graphic, a newspaper published in Ghana by the London Daily Mirror Group. In 1959, two years after Ghana's independence, James Barnor moved to London to further his technical knowledge of the medium. He discovered color photography at Medway College of Art, and his photographs were published on the front page of Drum, a leading magazine founded in South Africa in 1951 and a symbol of the anti-apartheid movement. He eloquently captured the spirit of Swinging London and the experiences of the African diaspora in the capital. Towards the end of the 1960s, he was recruited by Agfa-Gevaert and returned to Ghana to set up the country's first color laboratory. He remained there for the next 20 years, working in his new X23 studio as a freelance photographer and for state agencies in Accra. Today, James Barnor lives in the UK and devotes most of his time to his work, with a view to passing it on. A major solo exhibition of Barnor's work will open at the Serpentine Gallery in London in spring 2021.
Damarice AMAO
A doctor of art history, Damarice Amao is a curatorial assistant at the Photography Department of the MNAM-Centre Pompidou. She co-curated the exhibitions "Eli Lotar" (Jeu de Paume, 2017), "Photography, Weapon of Class" (Centre Pompidou, 2018), and "Dora Maar" (2019), and co-edited the accompanying catalogs. In 2020, she received a curatorial grant from the Rencontres d'Arles for her project "Ghana: Portraits. Documenting the Years of Independence." The book: Portraiture and documentary photography are two essential axes of James Barnor's work. This book, based on a corpus of images taken in the 1950s and 1980s between England and Ghana, aims to show the work of a photographer who accompanied the changes in two societies of his time. With a preface by photography historian Damarice Amao, this book examines Barnor's photographic work as a whole and sheds light on the notion of Afro-modernity.
James Barnor
Born in 1929 in Ghana, James Barnor experienced his country's independence and the formation of the diaspora in London in the 1960s. In the early 1950s, he opened his famous Ever Young studio in Accra, where he immortalized a nation at the moment of its independence. He was one of the first photojournalists to collaborate with the Daily Graphic, a newspaper published in Ghana by the London Daily Mirror Group. In 1959, two years after Ghana's independence, James Barnor moved to London to further his technical knowledge of the medium. He discovered color photography at Medway College of Art, and his photographs were published on the front page of Drum, a leading magazine founded in South Africa in 1951 and a symbol of the anti-apartheid movement. He eloquently captured the spirit of Swinging London and the experiences of the African diaspora in the capital. Towards the end of the 1960s, he was recruited by Agfa-Gevaert and returned to Ghana to set up the country's first color laboratory. He remained there for the next 20 years, working in his new X23 studio as a freelance photographer and for state agencies in Accra. Today, James Barnor lives in the UK and devotes most of his time to his work, with a view to passing it on. A major solo exhibition of Barnor's work will open at the Serpentine Gallery in London in spring 2021.
Damarice AMAO
A doctor of art history, Damarice Amao is a curatorial assistant at the Photography Department of the MNAM-Centre Pompidou. She co-curated the exhibitions "Eli Lotar" (Jeu de Paume, 2017), "Photography, Weapon of Class" (Centre Pompidou, 2018), and "Dora Maar" (2019), and co-edited the accompanying catalogs. In 2020, she received a curatorial grant from the Rencontres d'Arles for her project "Ghana: Portraits. Documenting the Years of Independence." The book: Portraiture and documentary photography are two essential axes of James Barnor's work. This book, based on a corpus of images taken in the 1950s and 1980s between England and Ghana, aims to show the work of a photographer who accompanied the changes in two societies of his time. With a preface by photography historian Damarice Amao, this book examines Barnor's photographic work as a whole and sheds light on the notion of Afro-modernity.