Research Catalog

Title

Shining lights : Black women photographers in 1980s-'90s Britain / editor, Joy Gregory ; associate editor, Taous Dahmani.

Publication

• London : MACK & Autograph, [2024]
• ©2024

Details

Additional Authors

• Gregory, Joy, 1959-
• Dahmani, Taous R.

Description

444 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 26 cm

Summary

Shining Lights is the first critical anthology of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of British photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain's sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication tells a unique story from the dual perspectives of lived experience and historical investigation. Edited and researched by Joy Gregory, one of the period's most influential photographic artists, alongside art historian Taous Dahmani, who contributes a keynote essay.The pioneering and diverse work created by Black women practitioners in the UK over the course of these two decades marked an important juncture in both documentary and conceptual practices, including the experimental use of photomontage, self-portraiture, staged imagery, and photography in dialogue with other media. Shining Lights showcases the expertise and evolution of this work, illuminated by ephemera and archival material, new essays and roundtable conversations, foregrounding a variety of individual artistic developments as well as the communities fostered around them. 0Amongst the fifty-seven photographers included are Maxine Walker, Ingrid Pollard, Claudette Holmes, Roshini Kempadoo, Mohini Chandra, Carole Wright, Joy Gregory, Sutapa Biswas, Maud Sulter, Brenda Agard, Anita McKenzie, Mitra Tabrizian, Poulomi Desai, Virginia Nimarkoh, Jennie Baptiste, Nudrat Afza, Merle Van den Bosch, and Eileen Perrier.0Co-published with Autograph, London.

Alternative Title

Black women photographers in 1980s-'90s Britain

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Women photographers > Great Britain
• Photographers, Black > Great Britain
• Photography, Artistic
• Photographie artistique
• Femmes photographes > Grande-Bretagne
• Photographes noirs > Grande-Bretagne
• art photography
• Photography, Artistic
• Social conditions
• Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle > Ouvrages illustrés
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Sonia Boyce -- Introduction / by Joy Gregory -- Addressing absence and invisibility / Joy Gregory & Gilane Tawadros in conversation -- Portfolio: Claudette Holmes & Roshini Kempadoo -- The nature of photography: Black notes from the underground (1989) / by Maud Sulter --Together: community and activism -- Journeying: home and distant places -- Kinship and family ties -- Portraits: likeness and representation -- Exploring process and materiality -- Planes of imagination -- Autoportrait: 'authentic' selves -- Beyond the frame: photography with other media -- Embodied experience: bodies and sexuality -- On assignment

ISBN

• 9781913620752
• 1913620751

OCLC

1378023466

Title

Shining lights : Black women photographers in 1980s-'90s Britain / editor, Joy Gregory ; associate editor, Taous Dahmani.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Gregory, Joy, 1959- editor.

Dahmani, Taous R., editor.