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Priya Ramrakha : the recovered archive

Title
Priya Ramrakha : the recovered archive / Shravan Vidyarthi & Erin Haney [editors] ; texts: Sana Aiyar, Erin Haney, John Edwin Mason, Paul Theroux, Shravan Vidyarthi.
Publication
  • Heidelberg : Kehrer, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Vidyarthi, Shravan
  • Haney, Erin
  • Aiyar, Sana, 1979-
  • Mason, John Edwin
  • Theroux, Paul
Description
200 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits; 30 cm
Summary
This is the first publication to explore the work of Priya Ramrakha (1935-1968), the pioneering Kenyan photojournalist whose archive was recovered after over forty years. Hailing from an activist family of journalists, Ramrakha was one of the rare African photographers to chronicle the anti-colonial and post-independent struggles across Africa and one of the first to be employed by Time/LIFE. His iconic images defied stereotype, censorship and editorial demand, and captured key moments ranging from Mau Mau in the early 1950s to Africa's independence movements through the 1960s. Ramrakha's pan-African lens witnessed moments of political resistance by everyday people and major political figures in Africa and the civil-rights era in the United States, from Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya to Miriam Makeba and Martin Luther King, Jr. His work was cut short when he was killed in crossfire covering Biafra's front lines in 1968.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Art.
  • Pictorial works.
Note
  • Chiefly illustrated.
Call Number
Sc+ F 19-211
ISBN
  • 9783868288742
  • 3868288740
LCCN
9783868288742
OCLC
1046071860
Title
Priya Ramrakha : the recovered archive / Shravan Vidyarthi & Erin Haney [editors] ; texts: Sana Aiyar, Erin Haney, John Edwin Mason, Paul Theroux, Shravan Vidyarthi.
Publisher
Heidelberg : Kehrer, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Added Author
Vidyarthi, Shravan, editor, contributor.
Haney, Erin, editor, contributor.
Aiyar, Sana, 1979- contributor.
Mason, John Edwin, contributor.
Theroux, Paul, contributor.
Other Standard Identifier
9783868288742
Research Call Number
Sc+ F 19-211
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