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"A mesmerizing ode to African 'image-makers' who have 'affirm[ed] the...humanity colonialism was determined to extinguish'... Covering a dizzying stylistic and geographic range, the entries reveal how these photographers and filmmakers transformed visual mediums that had a history of framing African people as 'primitive subjects for ethnographic study' into modes of expression that assert autonomy, honor tradition, and remake identity by reimagining links between past and present. Readers will be spellbound.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" Sall draws on her background in human rights and cultural studies to show how artistic expression in photography and cinema has sparked discussions on African history, identity, power dynamics, and representation... With its beautiful design and a wealth of accessible material, including 280 photographs, this book is a valuable resource for contemporary art history collections and a must-read for those interested in African photography and film.-- ""Library Journal"""

'An important and timely edition ... a fantastic introduction to an area that has been all too often overlooked ... highly recommended' - Amateur Photography 'A meticulously crafted archival compilation, The African Gaze allows readers to understand the postcolonial circumstances that forged these photographers and filmmakers' - Harper's Bazaar 'A spellbinding journey into the history and significance of pan-African art… It reveals photography as a powerful mechanism for expressing African subjectivities while also providing a visual library for understanding the influence and significance of postcolonial representations' - Musee 'Packed with authoritative insight... An essential, encyclopedic study of African image-makers' - BookPage 'The African Gaze goes beyond charting how Africans have resisted the fetishisation and othering of their continent by the West. Instead, it chooses to illustrate what the resistance has created: powerful modes of visual storytelling that are up to the world-changing task of helping people to be certain of who they are and from where they wish to speak' - ArtReview 'An impressive overview of pan-African artistic expression through the work of 25 photographers and 25 filmmakers… Gorgeous [and] significant' - Shelf Awareness

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Amy Sall is a writer, independent researcher, and collector-archivist based in New York. She is the founding editor of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought + Aesthetics, a pan-African, post-disciplinary platform exploring the artistic, cultural and intellectual production of Africa and the diaspora across time and space. Amy holds a master's degree in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University. As a Part-time Lecturer at The New School, New York, she conceived and taught two courses, 'The African Gaze: Visual Culture of Postcolonial Africa and the Social Imagination' and 'Third Cinema & the Counter Narratives'. Her private collection, The Sall Collection, is an assemblage of studio and other vernacular photography, printed matter and ephemera with a pan-African focus. Amy's work and interests explore the theory and praxis of cultural sovereignty, cultural preservation, anti-/de-/post-coloniality, human rights, visual culture and the archive.

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