Contact
art book cologne GmbH & Co. KG
Deutzer Freiheit 107
50679 Köln
Germany
Opening hours (office and showroom):
Monday to Friday 8 – 17
info@artbookcologne.de
Phone: +49 221 800 80 80
Fax: +49 221 800 80 82
About us
art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Solomon Osagie Alonge – Fragile Legacies
| Publisher | Giles |
| Year | 2017 |
| Cover | Hardcover with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-1-907804-99-1 |
| Pages | 212 |
| Weight | 1478 g |
| More | |
| Author(s) | Amy J. Staples, Flora S. Kaplan |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | National Museum of African Art, Washington |
| Article ID | art-28844 |
Fragile Legacies showcases the extraordinary photographs of Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge (1911–1994), one of Nigeria’s premier photographers and the first official photographer to the royal court of the Benin kingdom. Alonge’s photographs document a half-century of the Benin palace and the rituals, pageantry, and regalia of the obas (kings), and provide rare insight into the early histories and practices of studio photography in West Africa. His insider status provides an important perspective for examining the transformations of Benin City during the early to mid-twentieth century.
This volume explores the contemporary significance of S.O. Alonge’s photography and its relationship to the visual arts and cultures of the Benin-Edo peoples. It is the result of a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria, to preserve, research, and publish the Alonge collection and to reveal its historical, artistic, and cultural significance to global audiences.
