The Future Is in Your Hands – Portrait Photography from Senegal

Beth A. Buggenhagen

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Indiana University Press
07 November 2023

Photography & photographs; Material culture; Social & cultural anthropology

In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images to mend fraught and fragmented lives in the context of decades of migration.

The Future Is in Your Hands provides an expansive frame for photography to highlight the role of affect in portraiture practices. Moving from the colonial to the newly independent Senegal, Beth Buggenhagen combines museum, ethnographic, and archival research on photography's past with lens-based artists who address themes of separation, visibility, rupture, and repatriation through portraiture. Buggenhagen, in collaboration with Senegalese photographers, explores how photographs, as visual and material objects, migrate themselves and, like the bodies they represent, create a record not only of lived experiences but also of the cycle of migration for this labor-exporting country.

By complicating the history of portraiture in Senegal, The Future Is in Your Hands reveals the enduring power of images and the efforts under way to keep this art form safely in Senegalese hands.

By: Beth A. Buggenhagen
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9780253067692
ISBN 10: 0253067693
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 07 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Portraits and the Weight of the Future 1. ""Uncontrollable Circulation"": Portraiture in and out of Senegal 2. ""Send Us Your Photos"": Portraiture in Bingo Magazine 3. Family Portraits 4. Ibrahima Thiam's Vintage Portraits 5. Cut from the Same Cloth: Omar Victor Diop's ""The Studio of Vanities"" Epilogue: New Thresholds for ""Reigniting Collections"" Bibliography Index"

Beth Buggenhagen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. She is author of Muslim Families in Global Senegal: Money Takes Care of Shame and editor (with Anne-Maria Makhulu and Stephen Jackson) of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities.

Reviews for The Future Is in Your Hands – Portrait Photography from Senegal

The book does a wonderful job of complicating histories of photography globally, and through a combination of historical and ethnographic work, shows the enduring but changing power of images in Senegal. --Joshua A. Bell, editor of Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones