Resounding with Echoes (Hardcover)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2026

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Hardcover. Through a nuanced interplay of black-and-white and colour photography, Richard Hay Jr. traces quiet correspondences between West Africa and the Americas, offering a lyrical meditation on everyday life across geography and time. Refusing dominant visual tropes of poverty, conflict, or exoticism, Hay approaches his subjects with a distinctly artistic lens, lyrically rendering shared human experiences shaped by local and global material cultures. The photographs, taken during the 1970s, are often contextually ambiguous. Streets, interiors, landscapes, and fleeting encounters resist fixed narratives, instead opening a contemplative space in which affinities and differences between cultures emerge organically. An ocean apart and decades removed, these places appear intrinsically linked through rhythm, repetition, and lived experience. West Africa and the Americas have been historically entwined since the seventeenth century, when millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the so-called New World. By the mid-twentieth century, newly independent African nations were once again connected to the Americas through cultural, social, and economic exchange. Hay's images inhabit this charged historical terrain obliquely, attending not to grand narratives, but to the textures of daily life shaped by the deep, often unspoken histories. Hay first travelled to West Africa after working within his university's African Studies program. He journeyed from the coastal rainforests through vast interior regions to Kano, Nigeria, the ancient Islamic city at the edge of the Sahara. Carrying a used Leica, a limited supply of film, and a backpack, he photographed with the same openness and mobility that had previously shaped his road trips across the United States and Mexico. Influenced strongly by the New Topographics movement of the 1970s, known for its objective, detached documentation of the modern, human-altered landscape, Hay explores the social scenery of everyday life on both continents as a site of quiet revelation. Framed by an essay by renowned Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma, the images are situated within a broader reflective context, collapsing temporal distance and encouraging reflection on continuity, transformation, and impermanence. Resounding with Echoes invites slow looking and proposes photography as a means of attentive witnessing-one that honours the ordinary while acknowledging the layered histories embedded within it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Resounding with Echoes (Hardcover)
Auteur
Emmanuel Iduma
Éditeur
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
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3969002230
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9783969002230

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