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Joseph Chila
Joseph Chila is a Cameroonian photographer from Mbouda in the West Region of Cameroon. For most of his working life he was based in Mayo-Darlé in Adamawa Region. Early life Joseph Chila was born in 1948 near Mbouda in the West Region of Cameroun, in the Bamiléké area. He was apprenticed to an uncle, Jacques Toussele, in Mbouda from 1969 to 1974; then he set up a studio for some six months in Mbouda before moving to Mayo-Darlé in the Adamaoua Region in 1975 after one of his relatives told him that there was no photographer there. Career Joseph Chila worked as a studio photographer in Mayo-Darlé, a small town that then had a tin mine operating that brought wealth to the residents. He remained in Mayo-Darlé until the mid-1990s when he retired to Bankim (some 70 km from Mayo-Darlé) where he currently (2020) lives, farming and undertaking occasional photographic commissions. His work has been exhibited in Yaoundé, Douala and Bamenda and in the National Portrait Gallery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mbouda
Mbouda is the capital of the Bamboutos department of West Province, Cameroon. Projected to be the fourteenth fastest growing city on the African continent between 2020 and 2025, with a 5.16% growth. Notable people born in Mbouda * (Gilbert Nguita Noumessi), author / composer. * , politician. * , bishop, born in Balatchi in 1946. * Jacques Toussele, photographer, born in Bamessingué * Christophe Fofié (1946-1999), politician, businessman and sports promoter. * Etienne Poufwon, politician. Also known aPoufongEtienne * Martin Kuete, also known as Mylord, politician, born in Babete. Buildings File:Bâtiment de la Préfecture de Mbouda.jpg, Mbouda Prefecture building File:Sous-Préfecture de Mbouda.jpg, Mbouda sub-prefecture File:Marie de Mbouda.jpg, Mbouda City Hall File:Tribunal de Mbouda.jpg, Mbouda Palace of Justice. In 2022, American YouTuber MrBeast Jimmy Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTube personality, credite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seydou Keïta
Seydou Keïta (1921/23 – 21 November 2001) was a Malian photographer known for his portraits of people and families he took at his portrait photography studio in Mali's capital, Bamako, in the 1950s. His photographs are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art. Biography Keïta was born in 1921 in Bamako, Mali, although the exact date is unknown. He was the oldest in a family of five children. His father Bâ Tièkòró and his uncle Tièmòkò were furniture makers. Keïta developed an interest in photography when his uncle gave him a Kodak Brownie with a film with eight shots in 1935, after returning from a trip to Senegal. In the beginning Keïta worked as both a carpenter and photographer, taking first portraits of his family and friends, later of people in the neighborhood. He learned photography and how to develop from Pierre Garnier, a French photographic supply store owner, and from Mountaga Traoré, his mentor. In 1948 he set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroonian Photographers
Cameroonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Cameroon ** Culture of Cameroon ** Demographics of Cameroon ** Lists of Cameroonians * Cameroonian Pidgin English ** Languages of Cameroon * Cameroonian cuisine See also * * Cameroons or British Cameroon, a former British Mandate territory in British West Africa * Cameronian, a radical faction of Scottish Covenanters in the 17th and 18th centuries * Cameronians (other) Cameronians may refer to: * Cameronian group, a seventeenth-century religious group in Scotland named for its leader, Richard Cameron * 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, a regiment of the British Army raised from among the Cameronians, in existen ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the ''Union of Burma'', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published in the United States. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. * January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Fowler Museum At UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA, commonly known as The Fowler, and formerly Museum of Cultural History and Fowler Museum of Cultural History, is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present. The Fowler is generally home to three to six art exhibitions and also acts as a venue for lectures on cultural topics, musical performances, art workshops, family programs, festivals and more. The Fowler is located in the northern part of UCLA's Westwood Campus, adjacent to Royce Hall and Glorya Kaufman Hall. The museum is operated under the jurisdiction of UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts). History The museum was established in 1963 by then UCLA Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy as the Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology. Its first home was in the basement of Haines Hall on the UCLA campus. The goal of this new mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Council
The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh language in Argentina); encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational co-operation with the United Kingdom. The organisation has been called a soft power extension of UK foreign policy, as well as a tool for propaganda. The British Council is governed by a Royal Charter. It is also a public corporation and an executive nondepartmental public body (NDPB), sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Its headquarters are in Stratford, London. Its Chairman is Stevie Spring and its Chief Executive is Scott McDonald. History *1934: British Foreign Office officials created the "British Committee for Relations with Other Countries" to support English education abroad, promote British culture and fight the rise o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Finlak
Samuel Finlak 1958-2023 was a Cameroonian photographer originally from the Yamba village of Bongor, Ngwa, in Northwest Province (now Northwest Region) of Cameroon. For most of his working life he was the resident photographer in Atta Village, Adamawa Region. He died on 8 January 2023. Early life Samuel Finlak was born in 1958 at Bongor, Ngwa village in Donga-Mantung department, where he trained as a photographer via a correspondence course. Career Having learnt photography in Ngwa, in February 1986 Finlak moved some fifty kilometres to the village of on the in Adamawa Region, where he established himself as the village photographer and also worked in neighbouring villages such as and Somié. Finlak's work has been exhibited in Yaoundé, Douala and Bamenda, and in the National Portrait Gallery (London). In ''Joseph Chila and Samuel Finlak: Two Portrait Photographers in Cameroon'', which accompanied the London show, Andrew Wilson singles out the joy of the people depi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camera Lucida (book)
''Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography'' (french: La chambre claire) is a short book published in 1980 by the French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes. It is simultaneously an inquiry into the nature and essence of photography and a eulogy to Barthes' late mother. The book investigates the effects of photography on the spectator (as distinct from the photographer, and also from the object photographed, which Barthes calls the "spectrum"). In a deeply personal discussion of the lasting emotional effect of certain photographs, Barthes considers photography as asymbolic, irreducible to the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind. The book develops the twin concepts of ''studium'' and ''punctum'': ''studium'' denoting the cultural, linguistic, and political interpretation of a photograph, ''punctum'' denoting the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct relationship with the object or person within it. ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism. Barthes is perhaps best known for his 1957 essay collection ''Mythologies'', which contained reflections on popular culture, and 1967 essay "The Death of the Author," which critiqued traditional approaches in literary criticism. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France. Biography Early life Roland Barthes was born on 12 November 1915 in the town of Cherbourg in Normandy. His father, naval officer Louis Barthes, was killed in a battle during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Vogue'' and ''Elle'' specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. An obituary published in ''The New York Times'' said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century"."Richard Avedon, the Eye of Fashion, Dies at 81" Andy Grundberg, '''', October 1, 2004. Early life and education Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish family. His father, Jacob Israel ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Penn
Irving Penn (June 16, 1917October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at ''Vogue'' magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. Early life and education Penn was born to a Russian Jewish family on June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey, to Harry Penn and Sonia Greenberg. Penn's younger brother, Arthur Penn, was born in 1922 and would go on to become a film director and producer. Penn attended Abraham Lincoln High School where he studied graphic design with Leon Friend. Penn attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) from 1934 to 1938, where he studied drawing, painting, graphics, and industrial arts under Alexey Brodovitch. While still a student, Penn worked under Brodovitch at '' Harper's Bazaar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
