A brand new exhibition is presently on view in Knox Corridor,
2nd Flooring Hallway, 606 West 122nd Road, New York. Open to Columbia associates solely, prolonged till Could 5, 2023. Curated by Dr. Yuusuf Caruso, African Research Librarian, Columbia College, and co-sponsored by The Institute of African Research and Columbia College Libraries.
This exhibition is only a very small pattern from an intensive historic {photograph} assortment on day by day life in Africa throughout the Sixties, just lately acquired by The Uncommon E-book & Manuscript Library of Columbia College. Marc & Evelyne Bernheim have been Euro-American photojournalists who sought to doc what they noticed as “Africa’s new significance” and its “hurry for change, making an attempt to mix progress with custom.” Throughout the Sixties, they traveled to and photographed in lots of components of Africa and produced a physique of labor that included books for younger folks about “trendy” and “conventional” Africa. In addition they equipped images for The New York Instances, Conde Nast, Ebony, Life, and different media shops, encylopedias, literary anthologies, and publications for organizations akin to UNICEF and the New Haven Public Faculties in Connecticut.
The twenty-six chosen photographs on show encompass black-and-white or shade portraits of nameless and notable African males, ladies, and youngsters, in chosen city and peri-urban facilities of Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, and Zambia. They embrace artists, athletes, enterprise folks, dramatists, educators, historians, musicians, workplace staff, photographers, politicians, college students, and writers.
High: Papa Ibra Tall (Senegal); Afi Ekong (Nigeria); Chinua Achebe (Nigeria); Chantal Lawson (Togo); Backside: Girma Belachew (Ethiopia); Geoffrey Geturo & Starehe College boys (Kenya); Chingola younger musicians (Zambia). Courtesy of Columbia College Libraries.
These Africans captured on movie some sixty years in the past represented the embodiment of the hopes and desires of a dynamic, newly unbiased Africa.
Earlier than changing into skilled photographers, Marc Bernheim, born in France, was a chemical engineering pupil at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and earned a M.Sc. from Columbia College and Evelyne Bernheim, born in Austria, was a graduate of Barnard School and earned a Masters’ diploma in “Hispanic Research” from Columbia. Each individuals are actually deceased. Books by Marc and Evelyne Bernheim embrace: From bush to metropolis: a have a look at the brand new Africa (1968) ; Every week in Aya’s world: the Ivory Coast (1969) ; African success story: the Ivory Coast (1970) ; The drums communicate: the story of Kofi, a boy of West Africa (1971) ; and, In Africa (1973).
