British Journal of Photography
The Portrait Issue
Issue 7911
1854
English
Softcover
178 Pages
210 x 280 mm
2022
ISBN 977000711914206
In the latest issue of British Journal of Photography, we ruminate on the portrait. We consider the fraught history of portrait photography through the work of Sasha Huber, whose image graces this issue’s cover. The original images of Jack and Drana were taken in 1850, commissioned by Louis Agassiz. These photographs, along with portraits of five other people from their community, came to be recognised as the first-known photographs of enslaved individuals. Huber, a Swiss-Haitian artist, has used metal staples to adorn the images in attire inspired by the clothing worn by well-known abolitionists at the time. This act of redressing seeks to heal colonial wounds. The work is currently on show at Autograph in London; more on that story inside the issue.
Also featured are new works from Kalpesh Lathigra, Eva O’Leary, Aneesa Dawoojee, Jialin Yan, Genesis Báez and Anne Vetter. The late William Klein is remembered by the words of David Campany. And Brett Rogers, the departing director of The Photographers’ Gallery, London, is our Any Answers.
Elsewhere, we visit the bubble-wrapped studio of Neo Matloga in Amsterdam, and find out about the censorship and resource challenges faced by the photography community in Vietnam. We are on location in Rio with photographer Igor Furtado. And, in our Intelligence section, curator Brian Piper unpacks the under-represented history of Black American studio photography, plus there’s our pick of the best books to look out for this winter.
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About the Magazine
British Journal of Photography is a photography magazine that includes in-depth articles, profiles of photographers, analyses, and technological reviews.The magazine was established in Liverpool as the Liverpool Photographic Journal in 1854 with its first issue appearing on 14 January 1854, making it the United Kingdom’s second oldest photographic title after the Photographic Journal. It was printed monthly until 1857 when it became the Liverpool and Manchester Photographic Journal, published bi-weekly, then the Photographic Journal from 1859 to 1860, when it obtained its present name. The magazine moved to London in 1864, first to Covent Garden; then in 2007 to Soho; and in 2013 to Shoreditch; then in 2017 to East India Dock. It was published weekly from 1864 to March 2010, then reverted to its original monthly period. It is now also available as an electronic magazine, online and in iPad and iPhone formats.
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About the Publisher
1854 Media publish British Journal of Photography. They are an award-winning photography publication house.
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