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Exploring Ideas of Black Masculinity Through Self Portraiture

Exploring Ideas of Black Masculinity Through Self Portraiture

Fifty years in the making, a new book explores identity, representation, and history in postcolonial Africa through the eyes of Cameroonian-Nigerian photographer Samuel Fosso.

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In the mid-1970s, at the same time Cindy Sherman started making self portraits to explore the construction of white female identity, half way around the globe, Cameroonian-Nigerian photographer Samuel Fosso opened his own stud...

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