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OverviewI Am Because We Are features 125 black and white photographs by Betty Press taken all over East and West Africa since 1987, combined with related African proverbs compiled by Annetta Miller, an American born in Tanzania.The book highlights the importance of proverbs in educating members of African societies on how to think, how to behave, and how to have a better life. Press took these photographs with the goal of making a significant educational and artistic contribution to the appreciation and understanding of African culture and society as well as our own.The photographs of daily life deal with knowledge, cooperation, love, beauty, friendship, hope, humor, sorrow, happiness, gratitude, dance, tradition, faith, peace, war, death, and human relationships. These are the same themes found in African proverbial language. Thus came the natural idea of coupling images with proverbs. Together they offer a powerful expression of African life and the universality of human emotions, ideas, and knowledge. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Betty Press , Annetta Miller , Joanne Veal GabbiPublisher: Betty Press, Photographer Imprint: Betty Press, Photographer Dimensions: Width: 25.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 1.025kg ISBN: 9780983545446ISBN 10: 0983545448 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 30 June 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsPress's images of Africa are timeless, immediate and personally authentic. . . .The proverbs accompany, expand, and ground the pictures. --Alison Nordstrom, curator of photographs, George Eastman House It is a stunning collection of photographs taken by Betty Press while she lived and traveled in Africa. In proverbs, philosophy and poetry have a fine marriage. Such is the relationship between Press s black-and-white photographs and the proverbs that root these images in our collective mind and spirit. . . .The power of this collection is that we are able to see the engaging images of the heirs of this wisdom and hear the voices of continuity, identity, and legacy that affirm their communal spirit. Joanne Veal Gabbin, James Madison University Author InformationBetty Press, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is an adjunct professor of photography at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has been taking photographs in Africa since 1987 and lived in Kenya for eight years. Her photographs have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers as well as in the book, The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent.|Annetta Miller has worked and lived in East Africa for most of her life and has been collecting proverbs for more than thirty years. She has published several daily calendars featuring proverbs and a book titled Sharing Boundaries: Learning the Wisdom of Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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