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Fragile legacies : the photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge / Amy J. Staples, Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, and Bryna M. Freyer ; with contributions from Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona [and five others].
- Title
- Fragile legacies : the photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge / Amy J. Staples, Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, and Bryna M. Freyer ; with contributions from Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona [and five others].
- Author
- Staples, Amy J.
- Publication
- London : GILES, 2017.
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- Description
- 210 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 29 cm
- Summary
- Fragile Legacies showcases the extraordinary photographs of Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge (1911-1994), one of Nigeria's premier photographers and the first official photographer to the royal court of the Benin kingdom. Alonge's photographs document a half-century of the Benin palace and the rituals, pageantry, and regalia of the obas (kings), and provide rare insight into the early histories and practices of studio photography in West Africa. His insider status provides an important perspective for examining the transformations of Benin City during the early to mid-twentieth century. --Front flap.
- Alternative Title
- Chief S.O. Alonge : photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- Exhibition catalogs
- History
- Pictorial works
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- This volume is published to accompany the exhibition 'Chief S.O. Alonge: Photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria', organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-199) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Photography and visual culture in Benin : Chapter 1 : Imaging, Imagining history / Amy J. Staples -- Chapter 2 : Remembering Solomon Osagie Alonge, Revisiting history / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Chapter 3 : Redeeming the image of the Benin monarchy and people / Tam Fiofori -- Photographing the Oba of Benin / George Osodi -- Benin arts and historical memory : Chapter 4 : Art as a medium of recording: precolonial Benin revisited / Daniel E. Inneh -- Visualizing history: bronze plaques and photographs / Bryna M. Freyer -- Chapter 5 : Photographic recordkeeping in Benin: ancient and modern / Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona -- Fancy fabrics and photography / Bryna M. Freyer -- The ideal photo studio : Chapter 6 : S.O. Alonge as artist-photographer-social documentarian / Amy J. Staples -- An interview with Eni Ehizibue Ehikhamenor, Esan photographer / Amy J. Staples.
- ISBN
- 9781907804991
- 1907804994
- OCLC
- 964893023
- SCSB-11261635
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library