Research Catalog

Title

Cimarron : freedom and masquerade / Charles Fréger ; foreword by Ishmael Reed ; with text by Ana Ruiz Valencia.

Author

Fréger, Charles

Publication

• London : Thames and Hudson, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

320 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom, established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. 0Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish-American term for these fugitive former slaves, is a new series of photographic portraits of their descendants. From Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean islands and Central America, as far as the southern United States, elaborate masquerades are staged that celebrate and keep alive the history and memory of African slaves and their creole or mixed-race descendants. Stock characters are portrayed in costume, or in grotesque or satirical representations. A huge variety of African tribal dress, wild ritual regalia and shimmering Mardi Gras outfits feature in breathtaking succession. Vividly coloured silks and cottons combine with woven fibres, leaves, feathers, and bodypaint; props include emblems of slavery and slavemasters - ropes, sticks, guns and machetes. These photographs record real people whose collective sense of memory, folk history and imagination dramatically challenges our expectations. 0Charles Freger's work has established a large and growing following among connoisseurs of contemporary photography, defining a new genre of documentary portraiture that extends and deepens our sense of the human past and the present.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Fréger, Charles
• Fréger, Charles
• Portrait photography
• Africans > America > Pictorial works
• Carnival masks > Latin America > Pictorial works
• PHOTOGRAPHY / General
• Africans
• Carnival masks
• America
• Latin America

Genre/Form

• Photobooks.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• "First published in the United States of America by Thames & Hudson Inc."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

Sc E 19-781

ISBN

• 9780500022467
• 0500022461

LCCN

2018945039

OCLC

1041904398

Author

Fréger, Charles, photographer.

Title

Cimarron : freedom and masquerade / Charles Fréger ; foreword by Ishmael Reed ; with text by Ana Ruiz Valencia.

Publisher

London : Thames and Hudson, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-781