• ISBN13: 9781478006626
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: June 26, 2020
• Pages: 376
• Original Price: USD 50.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 635 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): History

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 Ke�ta and Malick Sidib� became internationally famous and the Bamako Photography Biennale was founded. Moore traces the trajectory of Malian photography from the 1880s-when photography first arrived as an apparatus of French colonialism-to 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 Ke�ta and Sidib�, 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 �douard Glissant's notion of "relation" in ways that spark new artistic forms, practices, and communities.

Allison Moore has a PhD in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and has published in numerous journals and exhibition catalogs.