Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency maximeguyon the Design Museum’s Beazley Designs

the Design Museum’s Beazley Designs of the Year award and exhibition showcase the most innovative

24 x 34 cm

THE VOICE IMITATORStephanie LaCava

Kasper Andreasen

Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency maximeguyon the Design Museum’s Beazley DesignsThis book is a comprehensive investigation of photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the colonial gaze as its starting point, Events of the Social looks at the diverse complexity of the 19th century archive through a selection of vintage portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages. Three generations of African artists from the 1940s to the present chart the changing features of