The luminous continent: the revelatory power of images--whether from high-art sources or elsewhere--marked the most recent biennial of African photography in Bamako.(Report From Mali, West Africa)(Recontres de la Photographic Africaine)(various photographers)

From: Art in America | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Vine, Richard | Copyright information

For all the fashionable talk about a postcolonial redress of the imbalance between major cultural centers and a neglected "periphery," the tact remains that current art, and the critical and commercial attention it generates, still tends to coalesce where the money is--in New York, not New Guinea; in Basel, not Bakersfield. It is, therefore, something of a salutary shock to realize that, for a decade now, one of the world's best gatherings of fine-art photography has occurred biann...

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