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Life & Afterlife in Benin edited by Alex Van Gelder Phaidon HB 2005 First Edition ISBN 10: 0714845132 ISBN 13: 9780714845135 This remarkable collection highlights the work of nine photographers from Benin, working predominantly during the 1960s and 1970s. Their art marks a significant, yet often overlooked, milestone in the history of African photography. While the global spotlight has long focused on the celebrated Bamako School of Mali and its masters, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, this Beninese collection opens a new and distinctive chapter. The portraits from Benin are distinguished by their dramatic lighting, mystical undertones, and a profound sense of narrative. The photographers documented individuals poised between a pre-colonial past and a postcolonial future, capturing moments of transformation and tension. For many subjects, this photograph would be their first?and perhaps only?encounter with a camera. The collection is more than a record of conventional milestones such as weddings, communions, and family portraits. Among the images are startling and evocative scenes: revenants and juju men, voodoo priests and priestesses, thieves and murderers, prostitutes and pimps. Perhaps most striking are the sequences of deathbed portraits, which speak to the role of photography not just in life, but also in the afterlife. VERY GOOD, clean interior with no writing, no markings. bumping to foot of spine, in VERY GOOD dustjacket with 1-inch tear to rear panel, jacket now protected in archival mylar.

Hard Cover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Edition. Hardcover 1st Ed in dust jacket BRAND NEW, remainder mark & small 'non-mint' to endpaper, book & jacket crisp bright & as new; folio; 136pp fully illus Extra postage REQUIRED for priority or overseas delivery of this large heavy book.

hardcover. Condizione: Ottimo (Fine). Prima edizione (First Edition). Preface by Alex Van Gelder. Introduction by Thomas Seelig. ''Life and afterlife in Benin'' by Okwui Enwezor. Photographs by Benoit Adjovi, Jean Agbétagbo, Joseph Moise Agbodjélou, Bouraima Akodji, Léon Ayékoni, Christophe Mahoukpé, Sébastien Méhinto aka Pigeon, Edouard Méhomé, Camille Tchawlassou . 4to. pp. 136. . Ottimo (Fine). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . Il volume, illustrando l'opera di 9 fotografi del Benin operanti tra gli anni Sessanta e Settanta, offre un immenso campionario di preti e sacerdotesse woodoo, ladri, assassini e prostitute ed una straordinaria sequenza di ritratti mortuari. La fotografia nella Repubblica di Benin degli anni '60 e '70 aveva un ruolo importante nei rituali funerari: i ritratti après-mort catturavano, secondo una mescolanza di credenze cattoliche e woodoo, lo spirito degli esseri umani. Book.