Portraiture and Photography in Africa

Index

441 Abíọ́dún, Madame Olakoli, 355–357, 355, 357 Abíọ́dún, Rowland, 24, 319, 324, 325 Abraham (family), 74–78, 75; John, 76–78, 77 Accra, 70, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 94. See also Ghana; Lutterodt family; photographers, itineracy of adornment, 76, 288, 291, 293, 295, 305, 309; and pattern, 389. See also aesthetics; beauty; clothing; cosmetics; hair aesthetics, 402n72; African, 8–9, 19; in Kabompo, Zambia, 142; and portraiture, 135, 309, 310; postcolonial, 288; Mande, 21, 367, 386–392; in public discourse, 287, 293–294, 299, 305; Yoruba, 13, 106– 111, 351, 356. See also Akan; àkó figures; beauty; hyperaesthetic; skin bleaching Africa: definitions of, 4, 9–10, 14, 20. See also colonialism; modernity African Americans, 1, 40, 79, 84; influence of culture in Africa, 275. See also Smith, C. S.; Washington, Augustus African photography, 2–5, 6–10, 11, 12, 15–16, 20–21, 23, 25–27. See also portraiture; studio photography Africanization, 111, 135–136, 260, 300, 325 Akan, 319–320, 325 àkó figures, 319, 324, 329, 342, 343, 347, 350; aesthetics of, 348–351, 358–359; ceremonial use, 345–347, 352–354; history of, 342–344; and photography, 354–359 Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), 300 I N D E X Allison, Philip, 324 Anago. See Nago; Yoruba ancestors, 96, 202, 322, 345, 407, 408; commemoration of, 12, 329, 416, 423, 424; figures , 24, 412–414, 416, 428, 433. See also internet Andree, Richard, 178–182, 184, 185, 190, 200–201 Angola, 78–79, 86, 145, 215 Ankermann, Bernhard, 226, 232, 234, 250n23 Apagya, Philip Kwame, 3, 328 Appadurai, Arjun, 7, 29n17, 36–38, 256 apprenticeship, 81–82, 120, 123, 125–126, 129, 132, 133–135, 138n60, 195, 206n51 archive: concept of, 12, 17, 27, 44. See also Atlantic visualscape; collections archives: of African photographs, 41–43, 60n30, 224; decay and destruction of, 74, 97, 113; and griots, 364; kept by African families, 70; lack of, 79; private versus public, 54–56, 58, 97–98; difficulty of access, 44, 99n43; in the West, 40, 69, 86, 92. See also Bamum Palace; Basel Mission ; collections Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC). See Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction art market, international, 2, 3, 23, 27, 28n3, 394, 395, 400n51, 404n89 Ashforth, Adam, 202 Asian Africans. See East Africa; Mombasa; South Asians Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Index 442 askari, 275 Atlantic visualscape, 11, 36–38, 58–59 Attah, Quaccoe, 69 audiences, 89, 95, 152, 164, 169, 171, 186, 193, 247; changes in, 264, 269; creative, 7, 67–68, 70, 256–257, 259, 262; and dissemination of images, 9, 249, 368, 408, 413, 424; foreign, 23, 262, 282, 394; multiple , 235, 236–237, 265. See also art market, international; beauty; cosmopolitanism; identity; migration; Mombasa; photographers , itinerancy of; urbanization Audu, Anidu, 330–334 backdrops, 8, 22, 56, 81, 102, 107–111, 195, 401n61. See also Keïta, Seydou; Sidibé, Malick badenya, 364–367, 375–379, 378, 380, 383– 386, 396nn5–7, 397n14, 399n38; use by non-Mande, 400n50. See also aesthetics ; jεya Bamako, 130–131, 132, 191, 196, 367–369, 371, 397n15; women, 375. See also cosmopolitanism ; Keïta, Seydou; Mali; Sidibé, Malick; youth, culture of Bamoum, Musée des arts et traditions, 235, 245 Bamum Kingdom, 17, 214, 216, 248–249; photography and memory-making in, 223–235. See also Foumban; Njoya, Ibrahim Bamum Palace, 232–233, 237–238, 248–249, 251n35; museum, 233, 235–236, 236, 244, 247. See also Foumban; Njoya, Ibrahim Barthes, Roland, 25, 171n2 Basel Mission: archives, 41, 224, 232; school, 226–230, 237 Battamaliba, 318 Baule, 328 beauty, 18–19, 89, 92, 291, 320, 402n72; politics of, 292, 294–299, 303; and popular aesthetics, 287, 288, 308–309, 310, 325; and notions of femininity, 278, 290–291. See also adornment; aesthetics; commodity culture; cosmetics; cosmopolitanism ; debut portraits; skin bleaching; women and portraiture; youth Behrend, Heike, 186 Belgian Congo. See Congo Bena Lulua, 191 Bengy, Fanta, 419 Benin Kingdom, 315; art, 317, 322, 323, 344 Benin Republic, 118, 126–130; photographers from, 119, 123, 130. See also Fon Bild, 204n10, 409 Bildnis, 179, 180 bin Laden, Osama, 430–431, 432 Bioko. See Fernando Po Black Atlantic, 36 Bodmer, Karl, 180, 184, 186 Bohras, 262 Borgatti, Jean, 10, 20–21 Bouët-Willaumez, Captain Louis Édouard, 60n19, 68 Bourdieu, Pierre, 38, 58, 263 Brazzaville, 265 Brilliant, Richard, 5, 28n9, 341, 354–355, Buckley, Liam, 18–19, 20, 25, 29n21 Burkina Faso, 25, 105, 118, 120, 127, 131, 132...