This exhibition will present one hundred years of portrait photography in West Africa through nearly eighty photographs taken between the 1870s and the 1970s. These works, many of which are being shown for the first time, are drawn from the Metropolitan Museum’s Visual Resource Archives in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with additions from the Department of Photographs. Read more.
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Five Men (c. 1880-5), George A. G. and Albert George Lutterodt, Ghana
Man Standing in a Courtyard (1959-68), Oumar Ka, Senegal
Reclining Woman (1950s-1960s), Seydou Keïta © Keïta/SKPEAC
Self-Portrait (1936), Malick Sidibé, Mali
Portrait of a Woman (c. 1910), unknown artist, Senegal
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