Exhibit | In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa

Unknown Artist (Senegal) Seated Man, 1930s-1940s, Gelatin silver print, 5 x 3 in (13.3 x 8.3 cm)
Visual Resource Archive, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

When photography arrived on the continent of Africa in the early 1840s, and was immediately adopted by local communities and adapted to a wide…