Ever Young: James Barnor Street and Studio Photography 28 January - 26 May 2010
Rudenstine Gallery, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, USA
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Image: James Barnor, Selina Opong - Policewoman #10, Ever Young Studio, Accra, Ghana, c.1953-54ccra, Ghana |
Autograph ABP and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute jointly present the first exhibition in the US of photographer James Barnor's work.
It features a range of archival photographs from a seminal collection that includes street and studio portraits with elaborate backdrops, fashion shoots in glorious colour, and social documentary images from the late 1940s to the 1970s depicting a burgeoning modernity as the Gold Coast becomes Ghana.
Barnor's archive was produced during a career spanning more than sixty years. It not only covers a remarkable period in history but also bridges continents and photographic genres, creating a transatlantic narrative marked by his passionate interest in people and cultures. Through the medium of portraiture, Barnor's photographs represent societies in transition: Ghana moving towards its independence and London becoming a cosmopolitan, multicultural metropolis.
Alongside the photographic display, we present the award-winning Black Audio Film Collective feature film Testament (1988), directed by John Akomfrah, an experimental narrative of exile, diaspora and dispossession.
This exhibition is closely linked to the establishment of Autograph ABP's Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography (opening in Spring 2011) at Rivington Place, London and emerged as a direct result of archival research supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The first major James Barnor retrospective is scheduled for October 2010 at Rivington Place, London UK.=00
For more information please contact info@autograph-abp.co.uk.
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