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In Embodying Relation Allison Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement in Bamako, Mali, which blossomed in the 1990s after Malian photographers Seydou KeĂŻta and Malick SidibĂ© became internationally famous and the Bamako Photography Biennale was founded. Moore traces the trajectory of Malian photography from the 1880sâwhen photography first arrived as an apparatus of French colonialismâto the first African studio practitioners of the 1930s and the establishment in 1994 of the Bamako Biennale, Africa's most important continent-wide photographic exhibition. In her detailed discussion of Bamakois artistic aesthetics and institutions, Moore examines the post-fame careers of KeĂŻta and SidibĂ©, the biennale's structure, the rise of women photographers, cultural preservation through photography, and how Mali's shift to democracy in the early 1990s enabled Bamako's art scene to flourish. Moore shows how Malian photographers' focus on cultural exchange, affective connections with different publics, and merging of traditional cultural precepts with modern notions of art embody Caribbean philosopher and poet Ădouard Glissant's notion of "relation" in ways that spark new artistic forms, practices, and communities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Poetics of Relation
- 1. Unknown Photographer (Bamako, Mali)
- 2. Malian Portraiture Glamorized and Globalized
- 3. Biennale Effects: The African Photography Encounters
- 4. Bamako Becoming Photographic: An Archipelagic Art World
- 5. Creolizing the Archive: Photographers at the National Museum
- 6. Promoting Women Photographers
- 7. Errantry, the Social Body, and Photography as the Ăcho-monde
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index