Samuel Fosso - Autoportrait (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2020

FIRST COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF THE MULTIFACETED OEUVRE of Samuel Fosso, recognized as ONE OF CENTRAL AFRICA'S LEADING CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

Samuel Fosso, born 1962, a Cameroonian-born Nigerian photographer who has worked for most of his career in the Central African Republic.
Samuel Fosso won the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands in 2001 and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2023.
His work includes using self-portraits adopting a series of personas, often commenting on the history of Africa. One of his most famous works of art, and what he is best known for, is his "autoportraits" where he takes either himself or other more recognizable people and draws them in a style of popular culture or politics.

New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S CONDITION.

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'Since the mid-1970s, the artist has focused on self-portraiture and performance, envisioning variations of identity in the postcolonial era. From Fosso’s early self-portraits in black-andwhite from the 1970s to his recent, continually inventive exercises in self-presentation, highlights include the vibrant series “Tati” (1997), in which he playfully inhabits African and African American characters and archetypes; and the magisterial portraits of “African Spirits” (2008), where he poses as icons of the pan-African liberation and Civil Rights movements, such as Angela Davis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Patrice Lumumba and Nelson Mandela.
This landmark monograph demonstrates Fosso’s unique departure from the traditions of West African studio photography, established in the 1950s and ’60s by modern masters Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé. By charting his conceptual practice of self-portraiture, and sustained engagement with notions of sexuality, gender and self-representation, this book reveals an unprecedented photographic project - one that consistently reflects themes in global visual culture, and covers the range of expressive applications of photography.'
(from the publisher)

Steidl, Göttingen. Co-published with The Walther Collection, New York. 2020. First editon, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 240 x 280 mm. 352 pages. 188 photos. Photos: Samuel Fosso. Text in English.

Great photobook - in perfect condition.