African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial

Awards:   Winner of Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award 2020 (United States) Winner of Triennial Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award 2020 (United States)
Author:   Martha G. Anderson ,  Lisa Aronson ,  Christraud M. Geary ,  Tam Fiofori
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253028952


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   16 October 2017
Format:   Paperback
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African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial


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Awards

  • Winner of Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award 2020 (United States)
  • Winner of Triennial Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award 2020 (United States)

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Author:   Martha G. Anderson ,  Lisa Aronson ,  Christraud M. Geary ,  Tam Fiofori
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253028952


ISBN 10:   0253028957
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   16 October 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements A Note Regarding Captions Introduction Part One: Green in Context 1. Picture of the Niger Delta / Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa 2. Early Photographers in Coastal Nigeria and the Afterlife of Their Images, 1860-1930 / Christraud M. Geary Part Two: Green and His Oeuvre 3. Image Maker Jonathan Adagogo Green and his Practice / Lisa Aronson 4. J. A. Green's Portraits: Picturing People in the Niger Delta / Lisa Aronson Part Three: Viewing Green through Expatriate Eyes 5. Differing Views: Imperial Agendas and Personal Histories / Martha G. Anderson 6. Envisioning Africa: From Ethnographic Types to Picturesque Views / Martha G. Anderson Part Four: The ""Performative"" Aspects of Green's Photographs 7. Telling Histories: J. A. Green's Photographs in Colonial Albums and Western Publications / Martha G. Anderson 8. Green's Photos and the Visualizing and Reinventing of Ijo Histories / Lisa Aronson 9. J. A. Green: Pioneer and Legend / Tam Fiofori Appendix: Timeline Contributors Selected Bibliography Index"

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Apart from bringing to light one of Africa's underexposed photographers, this much-needed volume offers profoundly generative theoretical frameworks for considering the roles photography has played both on and off the continent in the colonial period and beyond. * African Arts * The publication of the book in 2017 has effectively peeled the layer of anonymity from Mr. Green who's work was published in leading publications across the world but who remained largely unknown for decades. . . This landmark book unifies these dispersed photographic images of Jonathan Adagogo Green and presents a history of the photographer and the area and times in which he worked. * Premium Times * The pioneering role of J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo) Green's photographic artistry is painstakingly resurrected and perceptively examined in this magisterial study, beautifully produced in large format by the Indiana University Press. * Journal of Folklore Research * [Green] practiced for only 14 years but the legacy of pictorial history that he created has been given proper focus by the impeccable, collaborative research and interpretative conceptualism of this volume of essays and commentaries edited with guidance from Prof. Alagoa. * The Guardian *


Little is known about J. A. Green and much of his corpus of photographs and the priceless documentation Green kept on each photograph were lost when a family member tragically tossed it all in the trash. Martha G. Anderson and Lisa Aronson have... uncover[ed] not just the story of J. A. Green but, perhaps more importantly, an examination of the intersection of photography and the indigenous and colonial life in Nigeria at the turn of the twentieth century. -Elisabeth L. Cameron, editor of Portraiture and Photography in Africa In the past fifteen or so years, African photography has taken shape as a subject of great interest to art historians of Africa and modern/contemporary art... This book will enhance our understanding of photography in Africa and especially the earliest years of photographic practices on the continent. -Joanna Grabski, author of Art World City


Author Information

Martha G. Anderson is Professor Emerita of the School of Art and Design at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University. Lisa Aronson is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Art History at Skidmore College.

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