Produire des images en Afrique

L'Exemple Des Photographes De Studio

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ID3609876
AuthorsJean-François Werner, Jean‐françois Werner (corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume36
Issue141
Pages81-112
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1996.2002
OpenAlexW2006499143
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Producing Images in Africa: Studio Photographers. - This study of the practice of studio photography in Western Africa both before and after the introduction of color photo-graphy places the changing conditions for producing portraits in parallel to the aesthetic codes for regulating how persons are photographed. Once color was introduced in the early 1980s, laboratories deprived studio photographers of control over technical processes. Meanwhile, roving photographers, a new occupational category, were car-ving out a major share in this market. At present, studio photographers have been professionally "marginalized", and the public is turning away from the "photographie ritual". This phenomenon reflects the construction of increasingly individual rather than collective identifies. A valuable cultural heritage-long overlooked in African studies-is vanishing

Art · Humanities · Photography · Portrait · Studio · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies

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