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- 23.5 x 30.5 cm
- 144 pages
- 978-1-59711-4-196
Summer 2017
This summer, Aperture takes an in-depth look at the dynamic spaces that have shaped conversations about photography in Africa for the last twenty-five years—the biennials, experimental art spaces, and educational workshops in which artists and audiences interact with photography. “Platform Africa” presents a new generation of artists who have connected through such platforms as the Bamako Biennale in Mali and Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia, and is produced in collaboration with guest editors Bisi Silva, founder and artistic director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria; John Fleetwood, former head of Johannesburg’s Market Photo Workshop and current director of Photo:, a new African initiative; and Aïcha Diallo, associate editor of Contemporary And.
FRONT
Agenda
Radical Women, Walker Evans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Arwed Messmer, and David Hockney
Redux
Geoffrey Batchen on The Era of the Photograph, 1966
Backstory
Maria Morris Hambourg on Irving Penn
Curriculum
by Leslie Hewitt
BACK
Aperture Beat
Object Lessons
Self-Portrait by Chief S.O. Alonge, Nigeria, ca. 1942
WORDS
Editors’ Note: Platform Africa
Five Cities, Five Platforms
Contributions by Emmanuel Iduma, Serubiri Moses, Carole Diop, Yasmine El Rashidi, and Brendan Wattenberg
Bamako Revisited
The legacy of Mali’s influential photography biennial
by Bisi Silva
Through the Lens
In Bamako, visions of a rapidly changing city
by Franziska Jenni
The Lives of Samuel Fosso
A master of self-portraiture returns to center stage
A Conversation with Yves Chatap
School Days
From South Africa’s Market Photo Workshop, the voices of a new generation
by Sean O’Toole
Truth Telling & High Fashion
The golden age of Africa’s leading magazine
by Rita Potenza
Raw Land
Reinventing documentary in North Africa
by Morad Montazami
PICTURES
Sabelo Mlangeni
Introduction by Bongani Madondo
Malala Andrialavidrazana
Introduction by Antawan I. Byrd
Mimi Cherono Ng’ok
Introduction by Hansi Momodu-Gordon
Nico Krijno
Introduction by Sara Knelman
Jody Brand
Introduction by Jenna Wortham
Ashley Walters
Introduction by Candice Jansen
Abdo Shanan
Introduction by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Délio Jasse
Introduction by Silas Martí
Eric Gyamfi
Introduction by M. Neelika Jayawardane
François-Xavier Gbré
Introduction by Sean Anderson
