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Priya Ramrakha : the recovered archive / Shravan Vidyarthi & Erin Haney [editors] ; texts: Sana Aiyar, Erin Haney, John Edwin Mason, Paul Theroux, Shravan Vidyarthi

Catalog Data

Author:
Ramrakha, Priya 1935-1968 Photographs Selections  Search this
Writer of added text:
Vidyarthi, Shravan  Search this
Haney, Erin  Search this
Aiyar, Sana 1979-  Search this
Mason, John Edwin  Search this
Theroux, Paul  Search this
Subject:
Ramrakha, Priya 1935-1968  Search this
Physical description:
200 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Illustrated works
Art
Place:
Africa
United States
Date:
2018
20th century
1945-1960
1960-
Notes:
AFA copy Gift from Janet Stanley.
AFA copy signed by authors.
Summary:
This is the first publication to explore the work of Priya Ramrakha (1935-1968), the pioneering Kenyan photojournalist whose archive was recovered after over forty years. Hailing from an activist family of journalists, Ramrakha was one of the rare African photographers to chronicle the anti-colonial and post-independent struggles across Africa and one of the first to be employed by Time/LIFE. His iconic images defied stereotype, censorship and editorial demand, and captured key moments ranging from Mau Mau in the early 1950s to Africa's independence movements through the 1960s. Ramrakha's pan-African lens witnessed moments of political resistance by everyday people and major political figures in Africa and the civil-rights era in the United States, from Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya to Miriam Makeba and Martin Luther King, Jr. His work was cut short when he was killed in crossfire covering Biafra's front lines in 1968.
Topic:
Photojournalism  Search this
Documentary photography  Search this
Civil rights movements  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
In art  Search this
Call number:
TR820 .R332 2018
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1108143