Research Catalog

Title

James Barnor : Accra, London : a retrospective / editors, Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Joseph Constable.

Author

Barnor, James

Publication

• London : König Books : Serpentine Gallery, 2021.
• Köln : Distribution, Europe [by] Buchhandlung Walther König ; Manchester, UK : UK & Ireland [by] Cornerhouse Publications Ltd. ; New York, NY : Outside Europe [by] D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carey-Thomas, Lizzie
• Constable, Joseph
• Obrist, Hans Ulrich
• Serpentine Gallery, host institution.
• Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, host institution.
• Detroit Institute of Arts, host institution.

Description

239 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color); 25 cm

Summary

A survey of British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, whose career as a studio portraitist, photojournalist and Black lifestyle photographer spans six decades and records social and political changes in London and Accra. Born in 1929 in Ghana, James Barnor established his Ever Young studio in Accra in the early 1950s, capturing a nation on the cusp of independence in an ambiance animated by conversation and highlife music. In 1959 he arrived in London, furthering his studies and continuing assignments for South African magazine Drum which reflected the spirit of the era and the experiences of London's burgeoning African diaspora. He returned to Ghana in the early 1970s to establish the country's first colour processing lab while continuing his work as a portrait photographer and embedding himself in the music scene. He returned to London in 1994. Fully illustrated, the book traces Barnor's photographic practice across six decades through a series of commissioned texts by David Adjaye, Christine Barthe, David Hartt, Erlin Ibreck and Alicia Knock. It also includes a new conversation between the artist and Serpentine Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Alternative Title

• Accra/London - a retrospective
• Accra, London, a retrospective

Subject

• Barnor, James > Exhibitions
• Barnor, James > Interviews
• 1900-1999
• Photographers, Black > Ghana > Exhibitions
• Photographers, Black > Great Britain > Exhibitions
• Black people in art > Exhibitions
• Women, Black > Portraits > Exhibitions
• Black people > Ghana > Accra > Social life and customs > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Black people > England > London > Social life and customs > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Documentary photography > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Photographers, Black
• Black people in art
• Women, Black
• Black people
• Manners and customs
• Photography, Artistic
• Documentary photography
• Twentieth century
• Black people > Social life and customs
• Ghana
• Great Britain
• Ghana > Accra
• England > London

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Portraits.
• Illustrated works.
• Interviews.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Serpentine Gallery, London, 19 May-24 October 2021; Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, 13 March-19 June 2022; and Detroit Institute of Arts, 28 May-1 October 2023.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions (note)

• Exhibited: "James Barnor: Accra/London - A Retrospective", hosted by Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano 13 March - 19 June 2022
• Exhibited: "James Barnor: Accra/London - A Retrospective", hosted byand the Detroit Institute of Arts 28 May 2023 - 1 October 2023

Contents

(from table of contents) Serpentine Foreword / Hans Ulrich Obrist and Bettina Korek -- MASI Lugano Foreword / Tobia Bezzola -- DIA Foreword / Nii Otokunor Quarcoopome and Nancy Watson Barr-- Interview with James Barnor / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Move with a camera / Christine Barthe -- Forming form--Architecture and photography / Sir David Adjaye OBE -- On the other side of the lens / Erlin Ibreck-- On all fours / Alicia Knock-- Free radical / David Hartt -- Plates-- Chronology.

Call Number

Sc F 23-270

ISBN

• 9783960989752
• 396098975X
• 9781908617705
• 1908617705

OCLC

1259538578

Author

Barnor, James, photographer, artist, interviewee.

Title

James Barnor : Accra, London : a retrospective / editors, Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Joseph Constable.

Publisher

London : König Books : Serpentine Gallery, 2021.

Distributor

Köln : Distribution, Europe [by] Buchhandlung Walther König ; Manchester, UK : UK & Ireland [by] Cornerhouse Publications Ltd. ; New York, NY : Outside Europe [by] D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions

Exhibited: "James Barnor: Accra/London - A Retrospective", hosted by Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano 13 March - 19 June 2022

Exhibited: "James Barnor: Accra/London - A Retrospective", hosted byand the Detroit Institute of Arts 28 May 2023 - 1 October 2023

Local Subject

Black author.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Carey-Thomas, Lizzie, editor.

Constable, Joseph, editor.

Obrist, Hans Ulrich, writer of foreword, interviewer.

Serpentine Gallery, host institution.

Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, host institution.

Detroit Institute of Arts, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 23-270