| Iké Udé Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty Contributor(s): Ude, Ike (Photographer), Gates Jr, Henry Louis (Foreword by), Kan, Toni (Author) |
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ISBN: 8857232298 ISBN-13: 9788857232294 Publisher: Skira OUR PRICE: $67.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - General |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 12.8" W x 15.2" (5.90 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The cinema of Nigeria is often referred to as Nollywood, a term coined in the mid-1990s to describe Nigeria's vibrant, film industry consisting of movies produced in the country but watched all over Africa and largely by Africans in the diaspora. This book presents a selection of photographic portraits by Ik Ud depicting some of the major Nigerian actors and actresses, television presenters, directors, and producers. With his ongoing photographic self-portraits, Nigerian-born Ik Ud explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, mainstream/marginal, African/postnationalist, individual/everyman, and fashion/art. As a Nigerian-born, New York-based artist conversant with the world of fashion and celebrity, Ud gives conceptual aspects of performance and representation a new vitality, melding his own theatrical selves and multiple personae with his art. |