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« Distance and desire », Encounters with the African Archive at the Walther Collection
The Walther Collection is pleased to announce the beginning of a three-part series of exhibitions on photography from Southern Africa, Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive. The exhibitions, curated by Tamar Garb, offer new perspectives on the archive, exploring its poetic and political dimensions, its diverse histories and materialities, and its changing and contingent meanings.
Part I juxtaposes A.M. Duggan-Cronin's early twentieth century ethnographic project of portraits and "native types," set outdoors, with Santu Mofokeng's "counter-archive" of largely self-conscious modern African sitters posing in the studio.
An Irish South African who lived in the mining town of Kimberley, Duggan-Cronin set out to depict what he saw as...
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