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Zustand: New. A photographic journey by one of the 20th century s great photographers through eight African countries on the cusp of independence post World War II.Join one of the 20th century s great photographers on a journey through eight African countries on the .

Paperback. Zustand: Very good in wraps. 21 x 26cm very good paperback exhibition catalogue featuring the work of James Barnor Hon. FRPS a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening.when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing colour processing to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "James Barnor is to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane SembËne was to Senegal and African cinema." Packed with reproductions in colour plus black and white.…

First Edition. 28 x 24 cm 175 pp with numerous color and b&w illustrations throughout. French & English dual text. Decorated boards, fine copy signed by the artist.

259 S. Oktn 4°. KMEX Fotografie.