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Maske

Title: Maske / Phyllis Galembo ; introduction by Chika Okeke-Agulu.
Author: Galembo, Phyllis
Publication: New York : Aperture Foundation, [2016]

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Additional Authors

Okeke-Agulu, Chika

Description

208 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"For over two decades, Phyllis Galembo has documented cultural and religious traditions in Africa and among the African Diaspora. Traveling widely throughout western and central Africa, and regularly to Haiti, her subjects are participants in masquerade events--traditional African ceremonies and contemporary costume parties and carnivals-- who use costume, body paint, and masks to create mythic characters. Sometimes entertaining and humorous, often dark and frightening, her portraits document and describe the transformative power of the mask. With a title derived from the Haitian Creole word maské, meaning "to wear a mask", this album features a selection of more than one hundred of the best of Galembo's masquerade photographs to date organized in country-based chapters, each with her own commentary. The book is introduced by art historian and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu (himself a masquerade participant during his childhood in Nigeria), for whom Galembo's photographs raise questions about the survival and evolution of masquerade tradition in the twenty-first century." -- Publisher's description

Subject

Genre/Form

Catalogs.
Pictorial works.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1754

ISBN

9781597113533
1597113530

LCCN

2015951138

OCLC

933719986

Author

Galembo, Phyllis, photographer.

Title

Maske / Phyllis Galembo ; introduction by Chika Okeke-Agulu.

Publisher

New York : Aperture Foundation, [2016]

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Added Author

Okeke-Agulu, Chika, contributor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1754

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