"Stunning and vibrant, the studio portrait photography of Omar Victor Diop is breathtakingly brilliant." Amateur Photographer
Since 2012, Dakar-born Omar Victor Diop has been hailed by the art world for his stunning, colour-saturated studio photography. His conceptual projects are primarily staged as beautifully costumed portraits and self-portraits, and focus on important historical figures and events from Black history and the African diaspora. In the three projects presented in this book, Diaspora (2014), Liberty (2017) and Allegory (2021), he revisits Black African history in poignant photographs that weave together the past and the present.
Text in English and French.
Recenzijas
"In 2016, the Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop began what he calls the liberty project, dramatising in his studio defining moments of black history." - Tim Adams, The Guardian "Stunning and vibrant, the studio portrait photography of Omar Victor Diop is breathtakingly brilliant." - Amateur Photographer
SOMMAIRE CONTENTS
06
Lépiphanie du visage : les libérations visuelles dOmar Victor Diop
The Epiphany of the Face: Omar Victor Diops Visual Liberations
Renée Mussai
10
ALLEGORIA
36
Image noire, esprits noirs : histoire, photographie et politique raciale
dans loeuvre dOmar Victor Diop
The Black Image in the Black Mind: History, Photography, and the Politics of
Race in the Work of Omar Victor Diop
Imani Perry
40
LIBERTY
62
Entrevue avec Omar Victor Diop
Interview with Omar Victor Diop
Marvin Adoul
66
DIASPORA
94
Annexes Appendices
Renée Mussai is a curator, writer, and art historian. For the past ten years, she has led Autograph ABP's art programs while simultaneously organising numerous exhibitions in Europe, Africa, and the United States. She is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg and a doctoral candidate in art history at University College London.
