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This catalogue accompanies James Barnor’s major solo exhibition, Accra / London - A Retrospective, at Serpentine, London (2021), MASI Lugano (2022) and Detroit Institute of Arts (2023), and is co-produced by these three organisations. Fully illustrated, the book traces Barnor’s photographic practice across six decades including a series of commissioned texts by architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, head of the photographic collection at Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, Christine Barthe, visual artist David Hartt, former model Erlin Ibreck and curator Alicia Knock. It also includes a new conversation between the artist and Serpentine Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

200 x 250mm

 

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James Barnor

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James Barnor (b. 1929 in Ghana) established his famous Ever Young studio in Accra in the early 1950s, capturing a nation on the cusp of independence in an ambiance animated by conversation and highlife music. In 1959 he arrived in London, furthering his studies and continuing assignments for influential South African magazine Drum which reflected the spirit of the era and the experiences of London’s burgeoning African diaspora. He returned to Ghana in the early 1970s to establish the country’s first colour processing lab while continuing his work as a portrait photographer and embedding himself in the music scene. He returned to London in 1994.

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