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Priya Ramrakha: The Recovered Archive

Priya Ramrakha: The Recovered Archive

Ramrakha, Priya
Haney, Erin
Vidyarthi, Shravan

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ISBN10: 3868288740
ISBN13: 9783868288742
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg
Published: Feb 26 2019
Pages: 200
Weight: 2.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.20 Depth: 11.70
Language: English
This is the first publication to explore the work of Priya Ramrakha (1935-1968), the pioneering Kenyan photojournalist whose archive was recovered after over forty years. Hailing from an activist family of journalists, Ramrakha was one of the rare African photographers to chronicle the anti-colonial and post-independent struggles across Africa and one of the first to be employed by Time/LIFE. His iconic images defied stereotype, censorship and editorial demand, and captured key moments ranging from Mau Mau in the early 1950s to Africa's independence movements through the 1960s. Ramrakha's pan-African lens witnessed moments of political resistance by everyday people and major political figures in Africa and the civil-rights era in the United States, from Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya to Miriam Makeba and Martin Luther King Jr. His work was cut short when he was killed in crossfire covering Biafra's front lines in 1968.

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