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Samuel Fosso is one of Central Africa’s leading contemporary photographers, whose playful and perceptive work investigates Pan-African identity and history through the use of portraiture. Fosso found his path to art-making through his early work as a commercial portrait photographer, using his leftover film to capture self-portraits against well-considered backdrops and incorporating pose, costume, and props. Renowned for his “autoportraits” - styling himself and others as characters from popular culture or politics - Fosso reflects the world around him through a distinct aesthetic that has at times defied Nigerian dictatorial decree. Fosso’s work is now held in museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate, among many others, and he was the recipient of the Prince Claus Award of the Netherlands. Samuel Fosso, a new title in the renowned Photofile series, exhibits Fosso’s photographic opus through sixty full-page reproductions in a handsome and collectible pocket format.

Fosso, Samuel, --- Portrait photography --- Photography, Artistic

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"Autoportrait is the first comprehensive survey of Samuel Fosso's multifaceted oeuvre. Since the mid-1970s, the artist has focused on self-portraiture and performance, envisioning variations of identity in the postcolonial era. From Fosso's early self-portraits in black-and-white from the 1970s to his recent, continually inventive exercises in self-presentation, highlights include the vibrant series Tati (1997), in which he playfully inhabits African and African American characters and archetypes; and the magisterial portraits of African Spirits (2008), where he poses as icons of the pan-African liberation and Civil Rights movements, such as Angela Davis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Patrice Lumumba and Nelson Mandela. This landmark monograph demonstrates Fosso's unique departure from the traditions of West African studio photography, established in the 1950s and 60s by modern masters Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé. By charting his conceptual practice of self-portraiture, and sustained engagement with notions of sexuality, gender and self-representation, this book reveals an unprecedented photographic project one that consistently reflects themes in global visual culture, and covers the range of expressive applications of photography.

Self-portraits --- Photography, Artistic --- fotografie --- portretfotografie --- zelfportretten --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Fosso Samuel --- kunst --- performances --- 77.071 FOSSO --- Artistic photography --- Photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- Aesthetics --- Fosso, Samuel, --- Exhibitions --- self-portraits --- commercial portraiture --- Fosso, Samuel --- 761.2 fotografen afzonderlijk --- Fosso, Samuel, - 1962 --- -Fosso, Samuel, - 1962- - Works - Selections [from old catalog]

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Portrait photography --- Portraits (Photographie) --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- Fosso, Samuel, --- Keita, Seydou, --- Sidibé, Malick, --- Exhibitons. --- Exhibitions. --- Exhibitions.

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stadscultuur --- urban renewal --- hedendaagse kunst --- Art --- niet-westerse cultuur --- art [fine art] --- Contemporary [style of art] --- Bickle, Berry --- Mofokeng, Santu --- Gregory, Joy --- Ndiaye Dago, Ousmane --- Perrier, Eileen --- Dondo, Calvin --- Douglas Camp, Sokari --- Langa, Moshekwa --- Basto, Luís --- Mthethwa, Zwelethu --- Bester, Willie --- Akinbiyi, Akinbode --- Diba, Viyé --- Brazier, David --- Leki Dago, Ananias --- Dilomprizulike --- Fosso, Samuel --- Anapa, Aristide --- El Anatsul --- Tchicaya, Patrice Félix --- Alexander, Jane --- Kan-Si --- Siopis, Penny --- Donkor, Godfried --- Kingelez, Bodys Isek --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 1990-1999 --- Africa --- urbanization --- metropolises --- postcolonialism --- London --- Harare --- Paris --- Dakar --- Abidjan --- Lagos --- Johannesburg --- Capetown --- art [discipline]

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Since the 1970s Cindy Sherman (born in Glen Ridge, NJ, in 1954) has caused a stir in the art world with her photographic self-stagings. From the beginning, Schirmer/Mosel has accompanied her rise to international fame that started with her famous series 'Untitled Film Stills'. In 1982 we published the first of eight books of her work to date. Neither her subjects nor her artistic realization acting as the director, photographer, and performer of her motifs have lost their relevance to this day. Quite the contrary: her multilayered examination of themes of identity and social clichés are hot topics in our age of increasingly public gender and transgender discussions. Entitled 'The Cindy Sherman Effect', an exhibition organized by Kunstforum Wien explores the influence of Cindy Sherman's work on artists such as Sophie Calle, Pipilotti Rist, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, Candice Breitz, Zanele Muholi, Markus Schinwald, Douglas Gordon, Samuel Fosso and many more.

Photography, Artistic --- Art and photography --- 7.049 --- 7.041 --- Sherman, Cindy °1954 (°Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten) --- Thema's in de fotografie ; "zelfportretten" met andere identiteit --- Vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- Portretten ; zelfportretten --- Photography and art --- Photography --- History --- Iconografie ; verschillende onderwerpen --- Iconografie ; de mens, portretten --- Sherman, Cindy --- Influence --- Art --- identity --- philosophy of art --- LGBT --- Turk, Gavin --- Bonvicini, Monica --- Breitz, Candice --- Krystufek, Elke --- Fosso, Samuel --- Muholi, Zanele --- Rosefeldt, Julian --- Schinwald, Markus --- Schlegel, Eva --- Shah, Tejal --- Trecartin, Ryan --- Wu Tsang --- Gutierrez, Martine --- Maleonn --- Wearing, Gillian --- Calle, Sophie --- Lucas, Sarah --- Rist, Pipilotti --- Tan, Fiona --- Opie, Catherine --- Gordon, Douglas --- LGBTQ+