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Alex Agbaglo Acolatse
Alex Agbaglo Acolatse (1880–1975) was a Togolese photographer and postcard publisher, known for his studio portraits and documentation of colonial-era Togo in the first half of the 20th century. His work has been featured in several specialised publications and exhibitions, including the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Rietberg Museum in Switzerland. Biography Acolatse was a Togolese photographer known for his work in early West African studio photography. Born in Kedzi, a coastal town in what is now Ghana's Volta Region, Acolatse was the son of a traditional chief. In the early 1900s, Acolatse was introduced to photography by Frederick Lutterodt, an itinerant photographer based in the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana). After his training, he established his own studio in Lomé, the capital of Togo. Between 1920 and 1930, he produced a series of postcards depicting people and landmarks along the coastal region between Accra and Lagos, capturing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slave Coast Of West Africa
The Slave Coast is a historical region along the Atlantic coast of West Africa, encompassing parts of modern-day Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the le ..., Benin, and Nigeria. It is located along the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin that is located between the Volta River and the Lagos Lagoon. The name is derived from the region's history as a major source of African people sold into slavery during the Atlantic slave trade from the early 16th century to the late 19th century. During this time, this coastal area became a major hub for the export of enslaved Africans to the Americas. European powers, including the Portuguese, British, Dutch, Danish, and French, established forts and trading posts in the region to facilitate the slave trade. The area was so name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue Noire
Revue Noire is a specialist publisher of books and web material relating to African contemporary art and culture, based in France. From 1991 to 2001, Editions Revue Noire published the printed quarterly magazine ''Revue Noire (magazine), Revue Noire''. Since 2001 it has specialized in books, exhibitions, and online content. History ''Revue Noire'' was created in 1991 in Paris with the objective of demonstrating that "there is art in Africa". The name relates to the ''Revue Blanche'', a French magazine of the Fifties, to Josephine Baker and to Paris of the Thirties when there was a discussion about "revues nègres"."Revue Noire. La testimonianza di N'Goné Fall", (ed. Irene Amodei and Iolanda Pensa) in ''Africa e Mediterraneo'' 55, August 2006, p. 13. The magazine was founded by Jean Loup Pivin, Simon Njami, Bruno Tilliette and Pascal Martin Saint Léon; over time the editorial board has also included Pierre Gaudibert, André Magnin (only for the first issue), Everlyn Nicodemus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Deaths
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11. * January 20 ** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam. ** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French Channel Tunnel scheme. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880 Births
Events January *January 27 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent light bulb. Edison filed for a US patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires." granted 27 January 1880 Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament ,including using "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways," Edison and his team later discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could last more than 1200 hours. * January **The international White slave trade affair scandal in Brussels is exposed and attracts international infamy. **The Gokstad ship is found in Norway, the first Viking ship burial to be excavated. February * February 2 ** The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana. ** The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London, aboard the SS ''Strathleven''. * February 4 – The Black Donnelly Massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luminous-Lint
Luminous-Lint (or Luminous Lint) is a website on photography, run by Alan Griffiths, on vintage and contemporary photography. The site also serves as a collaborative knowledge base on the history of photography and as of 2023 included more than 126,000 photographs and 1,000 histories, biographies of more than 21,000 photographers, and information about techniques, galleries and dealers, photography timelines and other photography-related issues. Robert Hirsch has referred to it as a "top-notch" photographic site. In 2022, Alasdair Forster described Luminous-Lint as a "dynamically networked, multiply indexed database in the form of a website that classifies photographs as multivalent entities capable of forming many different taxonomic relationships." Forster went on to say, "That more organic, responsive way of considering photographs within the wider history of the medium has proved both useful and effective, establishing this as the go-to site for academics, institutions, colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Washington
Augustus Washington ( – June 7, 1875) was an American–Liberian photographer and politician. One of the few African American daguerreotypists whose careers have been documented, Washington was born in New Jersey as a free person of color and in 1853 migrated to Liberia, where he later entered politics. Early life Augustus Washington was born in Trenton, New Jersey, as the son of a former slave and a woman who was said to be of South Asian descent. His mother died when he was a child. He studied at Oneida Institute in Whitesboro, New York, and the Kimball Union Academy, before entering Dartmouth College in 1843. He learned how to make daguerreotypes during his first year to finance his college education, but had to leave Dartmouth in 1844 due to increasing debts. He moved to Hartford, Connecticut, teaching black students at a local school and opening a Daguerrean studio in 1846. Move to Liberia Washington made the decision in 1852 to leave his home in Hartford to emigrate to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neils Walwin Holm
Neils Walwin Holm (1866–1927?) was a West African photographer who later retrained as a barrister. He has been called "the pre-eminent photographer of Lagos, West Africa, from the 1890s until 1910". Biography Holm was born in the Gold Coast. He left school in 1883 and was apprenticed to his cousins, who were professional photographers. Leaving them in 1885, he was commissioned by a German merchant who had imported photographic equipment for him to use. With his commission he managed to purchase the equipment, and moved to Lagos Colony in 1886. There, he built a successful photographic business, gaining early commissions from the colonial administration. He is said to have been the first photographer in Lagos Colony to introduce the dry plate, using plates manufactured in Ilford in England. He married in 1890, though his wife died in 1892. In July 1893, Holm travelled to Britain for the first time, visiting a Pall Mall exhibition by the Photographic Society of Great Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis W
Francis may refer to: People and characters *Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church (2013–2025) *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Francis (surname) * Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2988 Places * Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada * Francis, Saskatchewan, Canada ** Francis (electoral district) * Francis, Nebraska, USA * Francis Township, Holt County, Nebraska, USA * Francis, Oklahoma, USA * Francis, Utah, USA Arts, entertainment, media * ''Francis'' (film), the first of a series of comedies featuring Francis the Talking Mule, voiced by Chill Wills *''Francis'', a 1983 play by Julian Mitchell * Francis (band), a Sweden-based folk band *Francis (TV series), a Indian Bengali-language animated television series Other uses * FRANCIS, a bibliographic database * ''Francis'' (1793), a colonial schooner in Australia * Francis turbine, a type of water turbine See also * Saint Francis (disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parkes Decker
John Parkes Decker (c. 1840s–c. 1890s) was an early West African photographer, born in pre-colonial times of today's regions of The Gambia or Sierra Leone. Having worked in coastal regions from Senegal to Cameroon, his earliest mention is from 1867, and he was active until at least 1890. Travelling between major cities in colonial West Africa, Decker worked for both European and African clients. His work included portraits as well as pictures documenting social and political life. In particular, he was commissioned by the Colonial Office, British Colonial Offices to photograph buildings and urban spaces such as Freetown in Sierra Leone. Decker's contributions are notable for the history of African photography, representing early efforts by African-born individuals to document their societies through the photographic medium. Biography John Parkes Decker was a one of the earliest West African photographers. He was active from the late 1860s through at least 1890. Believed to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonso Lisk-Carew
Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew (1883–1969) was a Sierra Leonean photographer, active from around 1905 to the 1960s. Alphonso and his brother Arthur operated a photographic studio in Freetown, advertising as the "Lisk-Carew Brothers Photographers". Over their long career, extending through the first half of the 20th century, the Lisk-Carew brothers produced a large collection of photographs documenting life in Sierra Leone during the colonial era. Photographs by Lisk-Carew are held in some major public collections in Europe and the US. Among other early historical images from West Africa, a group portrait of three young African women by Lisk-Carew was presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in their 2015 exhibition and catalogue ''In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa.'' Life and work Alphonso Lisk-Carew had trained in the studio of the African photographer William Stephen Johnston, who operated his business from 1893 in Freetown. In 1905, Lisk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
