Paul Strand's Ghana and photography after colonialism
Crinson, Mark (2016) Paul Strand's Ghana and photography after colonialism. The Art Bulletin 98 (4), pp. 510-525. ISSN 0004-3079.
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Abstract
This article reclaims Paul Strand’s book Ghana: An African Portrait (published in the year of his death,1976) as a conflicted attempt to represent postcolonial nationhood. Comparisons with Richard Wright’s Black Power (1954) are used to open up the central problem of how to represent a post-colonial state in the making while also dealing with the author/photographer’s own difference from the subjects and subjectivities depicted. This is explored through the thematic of portraiture, of looking and being looked at, particularly in how to portray the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the relationship between leader and post-colonial citizen.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis, available online at the link above. |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Architecture, Space and Society, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Mark Crinson |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2017 14:12 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:26 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/15951 |
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