Essential Books: Monographs on 8 African Photographers

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Photography has a long history in Africa, where it was introduced by colonial powers shortly after its invention. Originally used there as an ethnographic tool by Europeans, it was transformed by African photographers, who opened photo studios as early as the 1860s, beginning in Senegal. These artists showed Africans through African eyes, documenting life unde