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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Candace M. Keller, "Imaging Culture: Photography in Mali, West Africa" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Description: Imaging Culture: Photography in Mali, West Africa (Indiana University Press, 2021) is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s to the present. Spanning the dynamic periods of colonialism, national independence, socialism, and democracy, its analysis focuses on the studio and documentary work of professional urban photographers, particularly in the capital city of Bamako and in smaller cities such as Mopti and Ségu.Featuring the work of more than twenty-five photographers, it concentrates on those who have been particularly influential for the local development and practice of t...