African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial Anderson Martha G.
African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial Anderson Martha G. J. A. This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new chapter in the early…
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African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial Anderson Martha G.
J. A. This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa.
Responding to the need for more photographs, expatriate and indigenous photographers began working along the coasts, particularly in major harbor towns. Soon after photography reached the west coast of Africa in the 1840s, the technology and the resultant images were disseminated widely, appealing to African elites, European residents, and travelers to the region. Green, whose identity remained hidden behind his English surname, maintained a photography business in Bonny along the Niger Delta.
His work covered a wide range of themes including portraiture, scenes of daily and ritual life, commerce, and building. Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson,
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