Casting Shadows: Images from a New South Africa

South Africa is in the midst of dramatic transformation. For its communities of color - long cast in the role of shadow to the white population - this is a time when identities and borders are in the process of redefinition. In this body of photographic work, Edward West uses the metaphorical power of shadow to foreground the shifting visibility of South Africa's black population post apartheid.In focusing on the private moments of these newly empowered people within their own communities, West has created a complex, visually compelling study of the ways in which identity is inextricable linked to environment. With the authenticity of full frame street photography, the images reveal moments in which the gesture - of people, place and shadow - becomes an essential way of knowing.This work bears testimony that there is much to be found in the shadow - if we are willing to enter the darkness.

Arts & Photography

West, Edward

King-Hammond, Leslie

Individual Artists

Univ of Michigan Museum of Art

Edward West uses the metaphorical power of shadow to foreground the shifting visibility of South Africa's black population post apartheid. From 1997-1999, he traveled in South Africa to photograph the country's townships, squatter camps, and locations during this historic time of transition. In focusing on the private moments of these newly empowered people within their own communities, West has created a complex, visually compelling study of the ways in which identity is inextricably linked to environment. Utilizing the medium of photography in large scale color Giclee prints, West has developed a rich visual language built on the shadow metaphor that at once moves us and grounds us.

Published as part of a collaboration between the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, this catalog of an exhibition of the same name presents the captivating work of mixed media artist Amaki. The exhibition focuses on her work from 1993 to 2005, and includes boxes, quilts, souvenir fans, mixed media assemblages, and manipulated photographs. An interview with the artist and essays on her life and work complement the catalog's more than 70 color plates. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, And the Blues

Barnwell, Andrea D.

Gayles, Gloria Wade

Univ of Washington Pr

Hughie Lee-Smith (The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art)

History & Criticism

Pomegranate

The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century. Works by many of the leading names in American art are illustrated in this book, which also contains 13 essays by scholars, critics and curators to offer an understanding of American art for both the general reader and the student of art history. Beginning at the turn of the century and closing with a look at Postmodernism and the visual culture of today, the essays investigate various aspects of American Modernism. Along the way they focus on major American movements, schools and artists of the century. The book also contains a complete catalogue of the SBC Collection.

American Images: The Sbc Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art

Clarke, John R.

FAHLMAN, BETSY

Beardsley, John

Ashton, Dore

SANDLER, Irving

BAIGELL, MATTHEW

Agee, William C.

Larsen, Susan C.

Plagens, Peter

Quirarte, Jacinto

Sbc Communications

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

African-American artist Aminah Robinson (born 1940) produces an array of richly textures, colourful multi-media works. Grand collages on fabric, sculptures, drawings, paintings, carvings, quilts and books weave memory into works that document her own and her community's history.

Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson

Robinson, Aminah

Austin, Ramona

Nil, Annegreth

Harry N. Abrams

Joyce J. Scott Kickin' It With the Old Masters

Scott, Joyce

Baltimore Museum Of Art

Maryland Institute College of Art

Ciscle, George

Baltimore Museum of Art

Colored: Consider the Rainbow

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

This book provides a savvy survey of the latest work by designers, craftspeople, and architects of African descent around the world. Artists and designers of African ancestry-many in Africa but also others throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Far East- are working in a wide array of mediums: fashion, architecture, non-traditional crafts, design, fine art, and photography. Authors Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King-Hammond, together with six contributors, challenge presumptions of what constitutes an 'African' style or aesthetic, and demonstrate the power and expressive potential of materials, textures and forms. Work by well-known artists such as Yinka Shonibare, MBE and architects including David Adjaye appear alongside those of lesser-known but equally exciting designers whose garments, carpets, baskets, ceramics, furniture, body arts, wall painting, photographs and sculpture blur the distinction between art and craft. The result is an enormously diverse display of young and established talent, and a wide-ranging survey of contemporary African art and design.

The Global Africa Project

Sims, Lowery Stokes

Prestel

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