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J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere: photographs

Door J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#371310-AF10
Titel
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere: photographs
Auteur
Ojeikere, J.D. 'Okhai
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Zurich/New York : Scalo/Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
3908247306
ISBN13
9783908247302
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous photographs in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
No other aspect of fashion is as fleeting and ephemeral as hairstyles. Whereas we might ponder the length of hemlines and the fabric du jour, hair often escapes the passionate fashionista's fastidious and discerning gaze. J. D 'Okhai Ojeikere (born 1930), who worked as an advertising photographer for most of his life, has documented the hairstyles of his native Nigeria in painstaking detail for over thirty years Plaited, braided, in buns and in towering tresses Ojeikere's photographs hair reveals its sculptural qualities. His deceptively simple, classically composed photographs display hairstyles as a sheer play of forms -- minimal, abstract, transient artworks. But Ojeikere's photographs do not merely purvey aesthetic pleasures They provide and unexpected insight into Nigerian culture. De... (Lees verder)tailed captions tell us by whom and for which occasion a particular hairdo was worn, leading the reader into a previously unfamiliar social milieu. In an exhaustive text Ojeikere recounts his life as a photographer, giving us a glimpse of the nascent African mass media culture of the 60s and 70s.
Pagina's
158
Conditie
Goed — Some small top corners pages folded.
Prijs
€ 100,00

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