AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHER J.A. GREEN/ REIMAGINING THE INDIGENOUS AND THE COLONIAL

J.A. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa. This beau tiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after photograph y reached the west coast of Africa in the 1840s, the technology and the resultant images were disseminated widely, appealing to Afri can elites, European residents, and travelers to the region. Responding to the need for more photographs, expatriate and indigenous photograp...[Read more]