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16%OFFPhyllis Galembo - Maske - 9781597113533 - V9781597113533
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Maske

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Description for Maske Hardback. .
For over two decades, Phyllis Galembo has documented cultural and religious traditions in Africa and among the African Diaspora. Traveling widely throughout western and central Africa, and regularly to Haiti, her subjects are participants in masquerade events—traditional African ceremonies and contemporary costume parties and carnivals— who use costume, body paint, and masks to create mythic characters. Sometimes entertaining and humorous, often dark and frightening, her portraits document and describe the transformative power of the mask. With a title derived from the Haitian Creole word maské, meaning “to wear a mask”, this album features a selection of over a hundred of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Aperture United States
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1169g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781597113533
SKU
V9781597113533
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Ref
99-2

About Phyllis Galembo
Phyllis Galembo is professor of art at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Her photographs have been exhibited at institutions around the world, including the American Museum of Natural History, New York; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Kréyol Factory, Paris; Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna; San Francisco Airport Museum; Schomburg Center ... Read more

Reviews for Maske
…contains more than a hundred of her most arresting images, each subject a riot of colour, symbolism and mystery. –The Telegraph They are colorful, intriguing and sometimes dark and forboding in nature, but these portraits of hers document the transformative powers and mystery of the mask. –Trey Speegle It is a really remarkable work –AnOther

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