Armet Francis
Armet Francis | |
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Born | |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Photographer |
Years active | 1969–present |
Known for | Co-founder of Autograph ABP |
Notable work | The Black Triangle Roots to Reckoning |
Armet Francis (amụrụ 29 Jenụwarị 1945) bụ onye na-ese foto na onye mbipụta onye Jamaica biri na London kemgbe 1950s. Ọ na-edekọ ma na-edekọ akụkọ ndụ ndị bi na Africa kemgbe ihe karịrị afọ 40 na ọrụ ya gụnyere ọrụ maka Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Supplement, BBC na Channel 4.
O gosila ụwa niile na ọrụ ya dị na mkpokọta gụnyere nke Victoria & Albert Museum na Museum of London. Otu n'ime foto ya kacha mara amara bụ "Self Portrait in Mirror" nke 1964.[1]
Akụkọ ndụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A mụrụ Armet Francis na Saint Elizabeth Parish, n'ime ime obodo Jamaica, n'afọ 1945. A hapụrụ ya n'aka nne na nna ya ochie mgbe ọ dị afọ atọ mgbe ndị mụrụ ya kwagara London, England, ebe Francis sonyeere ha afọ asaa ka e mesịrị na 1955.[2] Mgbe a gbara ya ajụjụ ọnụ maka British Library's Oral History of British Photography, Francis kwuru banyere itolite dị ka naanị nwa ojii n'ụlọ akwụkwọ dị na London Docklands.[3] Mgbe ọ hapụsịrị ụlọ akwụkwọ mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na anọ, ọ rụrụ ọrụ na ụlọ ọrụ injinia dị na Bromley, tupu ọ chọta ọrụ dị ka onye enyemaka na ụlọ ọrụ foto West End, ma gaa n'ihu na-arụ ọrụ dị ka Onye na-ese foto n'onwe ya maka magazin ejiji na mkpọsa mgbasa ozi.[4]
O kwuru, sị: "N'afọ 1969, amalitere m ọrụ ndụ m niile .... M na-ebi ma na-arụ ọrụ na ụwa mbụ, n'ụzọ ihe onwunwe ya bụ, ma na-amatakwu enweghị aha na ụwa nke atọ, iji kọwaa kpọmkwem banyere Black World. Dị ka onye na-ese foto ojii, amalitere m ịghọta na enweghị m ihe oyiyi mmekọrịta ọha na eze na ọrụ m .... M laghachiri [na Jamaica] na 1969 .... Apụwo m afọ 14, ọ ga-ewe afọ 14 ọzọ iji mee uche. nke oru ngo a." N'iso nsonye ya na Festac '77 (Ememme Nkà na Omenala Ụwa nke Abụọ na nke Africa) na Lagos, Nigeria, ọ malitere ịse foto ndị bi na Africa.. [5]
Ọ ghọrọ onye Black mbụ na-ese foto nwere ihe ngosi onwe ya na The Photographers' Gallery na London mgbe egosiri usoro Black Triangle n'ebe ahụ na 1983. [2] O bipụtara akwụkwọ akpọrọ The Black Triangle n'afọ sochirinụ, e mepụtara Children of the Black Triangle afọ anọ ka e mesịrị. Ọ bụ onye na-ese foto na mbipụta nyocha nke Ten.8 vol. 2, no. 3, 1992, nke akpọrọ Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s.[6]
N'afọ 1988, Francis bụ onye guzobere Association of Black Photographers (nke bụzi Autograph ABP). [2] Ọ bụ onye na-ese foto maka Africa '05, nnukwu emume nka Africa nke emere n'afọ 2005 na UK. Francis bụ otu n'ime ndị ọsụ ụzọ atọ a mụrụ na Jamaica - ndị ọzọ bụ Charlie Phillips na Neil Kenlock - ndị e gosipụtara ọrụ ha na ngosi 2005/2006 Roots to Reckoning na Museum of London, [7] nke na 2009 site n'enyemaka nke Art Fund nwetara "Roots to Recking archive", nke nwere foto 90 nke obodo ndị isi ojii nke London site na 1960 ruo 1980.[8][4][9]
British Library gbara Francis ajụjụ ọnụ (C459/214) na 2013 maka akụkọ ihe mere eme nke British Photography. [10]
Foto Francis gosipụtara n'ụzọ pụtara ìhè na Staying Power, ọrụ mmekorita nke Victoria na Albert Museum (V&A) na Black Cultural Archives guzobere na 2015.[11][12][13] "Ihe oyiyi mbụ na-adọrọ mmasị na V&A museum bụ onye na-ese foto na Jamaica Armet Francis's Self-portrait in Mirror (1964), ihe oyiyi dị nso na nke ziri ezi na-egosi Armet na-etinye foto ya kpọmkwem n'ihu enyo, "ka onye nyocha maka Culture Whisper, ebe Brennavan Sritharan kwuru na British Journal of Photography: "Self-portraiture bụ ihe dị n'okpuru isiokwu, na Armet Francis onwe ya dị nro ma na-eduga ihe ngosi ahụ. "[14][15]
Na Febụwarị 2022, a kpọrọ Francis aha na ndepụta CasildART nke ndị Black British isii kachasị elu, n'akụkụ Charlie Phillips, James Barnor, Neil Kenlock, Pogus Caesar na Vanley Burke.[16]
Ihe ngosi
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Ihe ngosi onwe onye
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- The Black Triangle: Ndị Afrịka bi na mba ndị ọzọ, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1983[2]
Ihe ngosi ìgwè
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Ntụgharị uche nke Ahụmahụ Ndị Ojii: 10 Ndị na-ese foto ojii, Brixton Art Gallery, London, 1986[17][18]
- Mgbanwe okpueze: ndị na-ese ihe n'Afrịka, Eshia na Caribbean na Britain, 1966-1996, Caribbean Cultural Center, Studio Museum na Harlem, 1997; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 1997[19]
- Mgbọrọgwụ na-atụle: foto nke Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock na Charlie Phillips, Museum of London, London, 2005/6 [7][8]
- Ike Nọgide: Foto nke Ahụmahụ Black British, 1950s - 1990s, Black Cultural Archives, London, 2015; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2015. [11][12]
- Welie, Stand Up Now, Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House London, 2019 [20]
- Ndụ n'etiti agwaetiti: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now, Tate Britain, 2021/2022 [21]
Akwụkwọ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Akwụkwọ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- The Black Triangle: Ndị Afrịka Diaspora. Mkpụrụ, 1985.
- Ụmụ nke Black Triangle. Africa World, 1989. ISBN 978-0865431300
Akwụkwọ ụmụaka
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Ịgụ na Rhymes. Mkpụrụ, 1990. ISBN 9780951059845. Ọ bụ Francis na Olga Graham haziri ma dezie ya.
- Oge Carnival. Mkpụrụ, 1990. ISBN 9780951059852
Akwụkwọ ndị Francis nyere
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Mgbọrọgwụ maka ngụkọ - foto nke Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock, Charlie Phillips. Mkpụrụ, 2005. Ihe ngosi katalọgụ na iwebata Mike Phillips. ISBN 0-95105-988-2
Nchịkọta
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A na-enwe ọrụ Francis na nchịkọta ọha na eze ndị a:
- Victoria na Albert Museum, London: mbipụta 25 (dị ka nke Ọktoba 2018) [22][23]
- Ebe Ngosi Ihe Mgbe Ochie nke London, London[4]
Ebem si dee
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Njikọ mpụga
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- "Armet Francis", V & A.
- "Armet Francis", Autograph ABP.
- ↑ "Best photographs from the V&A collection, in pictures", The Daily Telegraph, 5 April 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Armet Francis biography. Victoria & Albert Museum. Retrieved on 12 July 2015.
- ↑ "Oral history at the British Library: what else has been happening?", National Life Stories: Review and Accounts 2013/2014, British Library, p. 7.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Important Afro-Caribbean photographic archive acquired for Museum of London with Art Fund help. Art Fund (1 October 2009). Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved on 12 July 2015.
- ↑ "Festac '77 – Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1977", Diaspora Artists.
- ↑ Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s. new.diaspora-artists.net. Archived from the original on 2023-12-02.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Molara Wood, "roots to reckoning", 26 February 2006.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Kate Smith, "Black History Month 2005 – From Roots To Reckoning In Photos", Culture24, 30 September 2005.
- ↑ Qiana Mestrich, "Afro-Caribbeans in UK: Roots to Reckoning Photo Archive at the Museum of London", Dodge & Burn, 17 June 2014.
- ↑ "Photography | Francis, Armet (1 of 6) Oral History of British Photography", The British Library, 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience, 1950s–1990s", BBC, 16 February 2015.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Sean O'Hagan, "Black, British and proud: 50 years of struggle and triumph", The Guardian, 16 February 2015.
- ↑ "Staying Power", Art Fund.
- ↑ "Insider's Guide: Staying Power, V&A", Culture Whisper,
- ↑ Brennavan Sritharan, "Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s–1990s – Review", British Journal of Photography, 9 April 2015.
- ↑ Top Six Black British Photographers You Should Know. CasildART (7 February 2022). Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved on 16 April 2022.
- ↑ Reflections of the Black Experience – 10 Black Photographers. Brixton 50. Retrieved on 27 February 2022.
- ↑ Armet Francis artist. Ben Uri Research Unit. Retrieved on 27 February 2022.
- ↑ Francis, Armet. aavad.com African American Visual Artists Database. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015.
- ↑ Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers (en). Somerset House (2019-01-31). Retrieved on 2021-04-24.
- ↑ Cumming (5 December 2021). Life Between Islands review – a mind-altering portrait of British Caribbean life through art. theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved on 31 December 2021.
- ↑ Your Search Results. collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved on 30 October 2018.
- ↑ "Photographic Brilliance", Aesthetica Magazine, 13 June 2017. Retrieved on 30 October 2018.