Fototracce Cultural Association is pleased to invite you at the opening of the exhibition Mama Casset studio photographer to be held Monday, March 7, 2011 at 19:00 at the Milan Triennale.
Mama Casset studio photographer is part of "Made in Africa. textures, colors, shapes of a continent" organized by Looks Elsewhere Film Festival, an event dedicated to Africa with exhibitions, installations, workshops and screenings will be held at the Triennale Milan from 7th to March 27th, 2011 . The project
Mama Casset studio photographer is dedicated to the figure and work of photographer Mama Casset of Senegal (1908-1992), considered at the international level one of the first and most important representatives of Senegal and African stock. It consists of a selection of photographs Mama Casset, portraits of studio priceless beauty that can help you understand unusual Africa, told by a look from inside and involved, and the video "BELLES TOUJOURS fashion and beauty in the photographs of Mama Casset (Fototracce-Ethnos realization in collaboration with the family Casset) which proposes a reflection on the relationship between fashion and photography through evidence gathered in Dakar.
Mama Casset was born in Saint Louis in 1908. In 1918 he moved with his family in Dakar, where only twelve years began working as an assistant at the office of French photographer Oscar Lataque. In 1925 he entered the compartment
Photo dell'AOF (Afrique Française West) and realizes for the French Air Force aerial photographs and reports of French-speaking.
In 1943, he left the army, opened in the Medina neighborhood of Dakar, the African Photo his studio, which soon became one of the studies of the busiest and most fashionable city. Mama Casset engaged in the business as a portrait painter until the eighties when, because of an eye disease, becoming progressively blind.
died in 1992, just months before the inauguration of the exhibition dedicated to him at the Mois de la Photo in Dakar.
His work is widely recognized internationally and his photographs have been exhibited worldwide at prestigious exhibitions.
The people come to study at parties, weddings, christenings or just to have a photograph taken by Mama Casset. In a few years become one of the studies African Photo busiest and most fashionable city.
is the great age of the photographic portrait of Study: For the first time photography,
perceived until then as a technical "foreign" instrument of control and coercion, is reinterpreted in a style and sensibility Senegalese, making it in effect "African art" to which confer a new and independent representation of their identity.
Before going to the pictures of women wearing their best clothes, jewelry and accessories
most valuable hair system with elaborate hairstyles, makeup, and you smell
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Mama Casset is then to place each to enhance the detail of each figure. In structuring the scene in fact nothing is left to chance and poses created by Mama Casset become models of a real iconography of the portrait, which has had great success and spread throughout Senegal. Central in the frame are the eyes and the posture of hands and frequent use of the diagonal that breaks the stillness of the composition, restoring strength and dynamism to the subject portrayed.
His black and white prints are still hanging on the walls of the houses of Dakar and is an asset of paramount importance not only for the memory of families, but also for the history of Senegalese society in the years of independence
( 1960) marked by a rich cultural ferment politico e sociale.
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