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Fragile legacies : the photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge / Amy J. Staples, Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, and Bryna M. Freyer.
Author
Staples, Amy J., 1958-
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Language
English
Published/Created
London : Giles, [2017]
©2017
Description
210 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm
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Marquand Library - Photography
TR647 .A4586 2017
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Subject(s)
Portrait photography
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Nigeria
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Exhibitions
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Bini (African people)
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Pictorial works
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Photographers, Black
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Nigeria
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Exhibitions
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Photographers
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Nigeria
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Benin
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Benin (Kingdom)
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History
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Benin (Kingdom)
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Social life and customs
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Pictorial works
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Alonge, Solomon Osagie 1911-1994
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Host institution
National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
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Nigeria. National Commission for Museums and Monuments
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Author
Kaplan, Flora S.
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Freyer, Bryna, 1949-
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Summary note
Fragile Legacies showcases the extraordinary photographs of Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge (1911-1994), one of Nigeria's premier photographers and the first official photographer to the royal court of the Benin kingdom. Alonge's photographs document a half-century of the Benin palace and the rituals, pageantry, and regalia of the obas (kings), and provide rare insight into the early histories and practices of studio photography in West Africa. His insider status provides an important perspective for examining the transformations of Benin City during the early to mid-twentieth century. --Front flap.
Notes
From title page: "With contributions from Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona, Eni Ehizibue Ehikhamenor, Tam Fiofori, Daniel E. Inneh, George Osodi, Theophilus Umogbai".
From title page verso: "Fragile legacies : the photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge is published in conjunction with the exhibition Chief S.O. Alonge: Photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria, organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution."
Forward by Johnnetta Betsch Cole.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-199) and index (pages 205-210).
Contents
Photography and visual culture in Benin : Chapter 1 : Imaging, Imagining history / Amy J. Staples
Chapter 2 : Remembering Solomon Osagie Alonge, Revisiting history / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
Chapter 3 : Redeeming the image of the Benin monarchy and people / Tam Fiofori
Photographing the Oba of Benin / George Osodi
Benin arts and historical memory : Chapter 4 : Art as a medium of recording: precolonial Benin revisited / Daniel E. Inneh
Visualizing history: bronze plaques and photographs / Bryna M. Freyer
Chapter 5 : Photographic recordkeeping in Benin: ancient and modern / Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona
Fancy fabrics and photography / Bryna M. Freyer
The ideal photo studio : Chapter 6 : S.O. Alonge as artist-photographer-social documentarian / Amy J. Staples
An interview with Eni Ehizibue Ehikhamenor, Esan photographer / Amy J. Staples.
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Exhibition title
Chief S.O. Alonge : photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria
ISBN
9780965600156 ((paperback))
0965600157 ((paperback))
9781907804991 ((hardcover))
1907804994 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017932882
OCLC
964893023
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Fragile legacies : the photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge / Amy J. Staples, Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, and Bryna M. Freyer ; with contributions from Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona [and five others].
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