Flash Afrique! Photography from West Africa

by Gerald Matt, Thomas Miessgang, Olu Oguibe

Terra incognito? Heart of darkness? How about "stylish continent," as one magazine once wrote? The gigantic landmass that is Africa, over which a colonial shadow still looms, is a territory of projections and misunderstandings. The West African photographers presented in Flash Afrique!, including Philip Kwame Apagya, Dorris Haron Kasco, Seydou Keita, Boubacar Toure Mandemory, Bouna Medoune Seye and Malick Sidibe, tell stories about the tension between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3882436387
• ISBN13: 9783882436389
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.9" x 10.2"