Cimarrón: Freedom and Masquerade - Couverture rigide

Fréger, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0500022461 ISBN 13 : 9780500022467

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Cimarron, 9780500022467

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Charles Fréger is a photographer based in Rouen, France. Internationally acclaimed for his subtle and poetic portraiture, he has devoted himself to the representation of social groups. Previous books include Portraits in Lace: Breton Women, Yokainoshima: Island of Monsters, and Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom, established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities.

Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish-American term for these fugitive former slaves, is a new series of photographic portraits of their descendants. From Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean islands and Central America, as far as the southern United States, elaborate masquerades are staged that celebrate and keep alive the history and memory of African slaves and their creole or mixed-race descendants. Stock characters are portrayed in costume, or in grotesque or satirical representations. A huge variety of African tribal dress, wild ritual regalia and shimmering Mardi Gras outfits feature in breathtaking succession. Vividly coloured silks and cottons combine with woven fibres, leaves, feathers, and bodypaint; props include emblems of slavery and slavemasters – ropes, sticks, guns and machetes. These photographs record real people whose collective sense of memory, folk history and imagination dramatically challenges our expectations.

Charles Fréger’s work has established a large and growing following among connoisseurs of contemporary photography, defining a new genre of documentary portraiture that extends and deepens our sense of the human past and the present.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500022461
• ISBN 13: 9780500022467
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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