Hardback
November 7, 2023
9780253067685
English
280
92 color illus.
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v2.1 Reference
Paperback / softback
November 7, 2023
9780253067692
English
280
92 color illus.
9.00 Inches (US)
6.00 Inches (US)
$38.00 USD, £30.00 GBP
v2.1 Reference

The Future Is in Your Hands

Portrait Photography from Senegal

In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images to mend fraught and fragmented lives in the context of decades of migration.

The Future Is in Your Hands provides an expansive frame for photography to highlight the role of affect in portraiture practices. Moving from the colonial to the newly independent Senegal, Beth Buggenhagen combines museum, ethnographic, and archival research on photography's past with lens-based artists who address themes of separation, visibility, rupture, and repatriation through portraiture. Buggenhagen, in collaboration with Senegalese photographers, explores how photographs, as visual and material objects, migrate themselves and, like the bodies they represent, create a record not only of lived experiences but also of the cycle of migration for this labor-exporting country.

By complicating the history of portraiture in Senegal, The Future Is in Your Hands reveals the enduring power of images and the efforts under way to keep this art form safely in Senegalese hands.

About the Author

Beth Buggenhagen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African Studies Program at Indiana University. She is author of Muslim Families in Global Senegal: Money Takes Care of Shame and editor (with Anne-Maria Makhulu and Stephen Jackson) of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities.

Reviews

"The book does a wonderful job of complicating histories of photography globally, and through a combination of historical and ethnographic work, shows the enduring but changing power of images in Senegal."—Joshua A. Bell, editor of Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones

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