This book is the fruit of a jubilant collaboration: director Lee Shulman, creator of The Anonymous Project, asked Senegalese self-portraitist Omar Victor Diop to slip into the anonymous photographs in his collection of American slides from the 1950s and 1960s. These are images of ordinary celebrations, in which privileged white middle-class families are seen posing at the table to celebrate a birthday, at the beach, in the middle of a barbecue or in front of their gleaming pavilion. In this way, Omar Victor Diop enters worlds where he has not been invited, in the context of post-war segregationist America, as if he had always been part of the setting. Lee Shulman and Omar Victor Diop propose a new way of stirring minds and questioning representations, with humor. Their performance acts as an eye-opener.
Éditions Textuel, 2023
104 pages
29.5 × 27.5 cm
ISBN 9782845979444
This book is the fruit of a jubilant collaboration: director Lee Shulman, creator of The Anonymous Project, asked Senegalese self-portraitist Omar Victor Diop to slip into the anonymous photographs in his collection of American slides from the 1950s and 1960s. These are images of ordinary celebrations, in which privileged white middle-class families are seen posing at the table to celebrate a birthday, at the beach, in the middle of a barbecue or in front of their gleaming pavilion. In this way, Omar Victor Diop enters worlds where he has not been invited, in the context of post-war segregationist America, as if he had always been part of the setting. Lee Shulman and Omar Victor Diop propose a new way of stirring minds and questioning representations, with humor. Their performance acts as an eye-opener.
Éditions Textuel, 2023
104 pages
29.5 × 27.5 cm
ISBN 9782845979444
