Research Catalog

Title

People poses places / Musa Katuramu ; concept and selection of images: Andrea Stultiens.

Author

Katuramu, Musa, 1913-1986

Publication

Uganda : HIPUganda ; Paradox ; Edam : YdocPUblishing, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

Stultiens, Andrea, 1974-

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits; 15 cm.

Series Statement

Ebifananyi ; 2

Alternative Title

Ebishushani 2.

Subjects

• Artists' books
• Families
• Families > Pictorial works
• Portrait photography
• Artists' books > Netherlands > 21st century
• Pictorial works
• Uganda
• Photographers > Uganda
• Families > Personal narratives
• Photograph collections > Uganda
• Personal narratives

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• Personal narratives.
• Pictorial works.
• Catalogs.
• Portraits.

Note

• Cover title.
• History in Progress Uganda collects and publishes photographs from (private) collections and archives in and about Uganda.
• Ebifananyi is an eight volume set. Book 1, 2 and 3; are known as the photographer's trilogy. The first three books in the Ebifananyi series form a trilogy. Each one of these books is based on the work of one Ugandan photographer and tries to show the diversity within and between their respective practices.
• Designed by Andrea Stultiens and Marloes de Laat.
• Ebifananyi is the title of a series of eight publications by Andrea Stultiens and co-published by Paradox and History In Progress Uganda (HIPUganda). The noun Ebifananyi is derived from the verb Kufanana, and means to be similar to. It's the Luganda word for photographs, but also for drawings and paintings, placing emphasis on their qualities as likenesses. Each book is based on one Ugandan photo collection. It presents selected photographs from the collection as well as pictures and texts that result from the activation of the collection by Andrea Stultiens.
• In 2011 Andrea Stultiens and artist Canon Griffin initiated the platform HIPUganda. They aim at digitalizing photographic material in Uganda to prevent the loss of historical collections, which are often threatened by challenging conservational circumstances. Furthermore, they aim to bring the collections to life by connecting their content to audiences. Since both founders are also image makers and not archivists or conservators, they developed visual strategies to engage with the digitized material. The book series Ebifananyi is the first out of several projects that encourages engagement with the material that HIPUganda manages to disclose.

Contents

Ebishushani 2 -- People Poses Places -- Musa Katuramu. In People Poses Places Stultiens focusses on teacher, carpenter and cattle keeper Musa Katuramu (1916-1983). From the late 1930s he started to make portraits of family and friends with a simple box camera, using the Western Ugandan landscape as a backdrop. Nevertheless, Katuramu was one of the few who owned a camera and knew the people posing and their world. Most camera owners were outsiders such as missionaries or colonists. It makes his portraits remarkably intimate. Katuramu's archive was carefully stored by his son Jerry Bagonza. The archive consists of roughly 1500 negatives and 750 prints that have never been shown before. The book is composed of archival images that alternate with contemporary photographs made by Andrea Stultiens and her colleague Canon Griffin, who grew up in the same region as Katuramu.

Call Number

Sc B 23-18

ISBN

• 9081187902
• 9789081187909

LCCN

2018354731

OCLC

905841020

Author

Katuramu, Musa, 1913-1986, photographer.

Title

People poses places / Musa Katuramu ; concept and selection of images: Andrea Stultiens.

Publisher

Uganda : HIPUganda ; Paradox ; Edam : YdocPUblishing, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ebifananyi ; 2

Local Note

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Stultiens, Andrea, 1974- editor.

Spine Title

Ebishushani 2.

Research Call Number

Sc B 23-18

MEMZ (Katuramu) 16-2425