The African lookbook : a visual history of 100 years of African women /
McKinley, Catherine E.,
The African lookbook : a visual history of 100 years of African women / African look book Catherine E. McKinley ; introduction by Edwidge Danticat ; foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. - xxv, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.
Heritage: the African masters, 1900s-1970s -- With a certain eye: the colonial studio, 1870-1957 -- Dressing and undressing, 1900-1940 -- Clothes for a new nation: independence and post-independence, 1957-1970s -- Postnote.
A curator and writer, drawing on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos, presents this unprecedented visual history of African women across centuries. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history of African women across centuries. These images tell how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. She shows that, while African studios captured the dignity, austerity, and grandeur of African women, photos by Europeans are mostly nudes, revealing the relationships of white men and Black females: at best, a grave power imbalance. -- adapted from jacket
9781620403532 1620403536
Women--History.--Africa
Women--Social conditions.--Africa
Women--Africa--Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.
The African lookbook : a visual history of 100 years of African women / African look book Catherine E. McKinley ; introduction by Edwidge Danticat ; foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. - xxv, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.
Heritage: the African masters, 1900s-1970s -- With a certain eye: the colonial studio, 1870-1957 -- Dressing and undressing, 1900-1940 -- Clothes for a new nation: independence and post-independence, 1957-1970s -- Postnote.
A curator and writer, drawing on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos, presents this unprecedented visual history of African women across centuries. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history of African women across centuries. These images tell how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. She shows that, while African studios captured the dignity, austerity, and grandeur of African women, photos by Europeans are mostly nudes, revealing the relationships of white men and Black females: at best, a grave power imbalance. -- adapted from jacket
9781620403532 1620403536
Women--History.--Africa
Women--Social conditions.--Africa
Women--Africa--Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.