James Barnor

Onye Ghana na-ese foto

 

James Barnor
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ụdịekerenwoke Dezie
mba o sịGhana Dezie
aha enyereJames Dezie
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya6 Jụn 1929 Dezie
Ebe ọmụmụAccra Dezie
asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye akaBekee Dezie
ọrụ ọ na-arụosee foto, onye nta akụkọ, fashion photographer Dezie
ụdị ọrụ yaphotography Dezie
Flọruit2016 Dezie
Nwere ọrụ na mkpokọtaTate, National Museum van Wereldculturen Dezie
ikike nwebiisinka dị ka onye okikeỌrụ nwebiisinka chekwara Dezie

James Barnor Hon. FRPS, OV (amụrụ 6 Juun 1929) [1] bụ onye na-ese foto nke Ghana nke hibere na London kemgbe 1990s. Ọrụ ya dị ihe dị ka afọ iri isii, n'agbanyeghị na ọtụtụ n'ime oge ahụ amachaghị ọrụ ya, ndị ọhụụ ọhụrụ achọpụtala ya n'ikpeazụ. N'okporo ámá ya na foto studio, Barnor na-anọchite anya ọha mmadụ na mgbanwe na 1950s na 1960: Ghana na-aga n'ihu na nnwere onwe, na London na-aghọ obodo ukwu. [2] O kwuru, sị: "Enwere m obi ụtọ na m dị ndụ mgbe ihe na-eme ... mgbe Ghana ga-enwere onwe ya na Ghana nwere onwe ya, na mgbe m rutere England , Beatles nọ gburugburu. Ihe na-eme na 60s, ya mere m kpọọ onwe m Lucky Jim." [3] Ọ bụ onye mbụ na-ese foto akwụkwọ akụkọ oge niile nke Ghana na 1950s, a na-ekwupụtakwa ya na ọ webatara nhazi agba na Ghana na 1970s. [4] E kwuwo: "James Barnor bụ Ghana na foto nta akụkọ ihe Ousmane Sembène bụ na Senegal na cinema Africa." [5]

Barnor ekwuola banyere otu esi achọpụtaghachi ọrụ ya na 2007 n'oge oge jubili "Ghana na 50" site na curator Nana Oforiat-Ayim, bụ onye haziri ihe ngosi mbụ nke foto ya na Black Cultural Archives (BCA). [6] Ekele maka ọrụ ya dị ka onye na-ese ihe nkiri studio, onye na-ese foto na onye na-ese foto ndụ ojii [7] ka abawanyela kemgbe 2010 mgbe nnukwu ihe ngosi ihe ngosi nke foto ya, Ever Young: James Barnor, nọ na Rivington Place, London, sochiri ya. usoro ihe ngosi gụnyere na United States na South Africa . Ndị ụlọ ọrụ anaghị akwụ ụgwọ bụ Autograph ABP jikọtara foto ya n'oge ọrụ afọ anọ nke Heritage Lottery Fund kwadoro na 2011 ghọrọ akụkụ nke ebe nchekwa ọhụrụ na ebe nyocha maka foto ọdịbendị dị iche iche. [8]

Foto Barnor nwekwara n'afọ ndị na-adịbeghị anya nwere ihe ngosi na Ghana, [9] [10] France ( Paris Photo 2011, Galerie Baudoin Lebon; [11] Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière), Netherlands . Akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ nke ọrụ ya, nke aha ya bụ James Barnor: Ever Young, bipụtara na 2015, gụnyere mkparịta ụka dị ukwuu n'etiti Barnor na Margaret Busby na Francis Hodgson.

Afọ mbụ

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Frederick Seton James Barnor mụrụ na Accra, n'ebe ahụ bụ Gold Coast, West Africa. N'inye nkọwa banyere otu o si bịa ịhọrọ ọrụ ya, o kwuru, sị: "Foto dị n'ime ezinụlọ m. Ụmụnne nna m abụọ bụ ndị na-ese foto. Nwa nwanne nna m bụ onye na-ese foto, ma achọpụtara m mgbe e mesịrị mgbe m banyere na nwa nwanne nne ọzọ bụkwa onye na-ese foto. onye na-ese foto." [3]

Mgbe ọ dị afọ 17, Barnor nọ na-akụzi ịkpa nkata n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ndị ozi ala ọzọ na onye isi ụlọ ọrụ nyere ya igwefoto "ka ya na ya na-egwuri egwu - ọ bụ Kodak Brownie 127, nke ejiri plastik mee". [12] N'afọ 1947, Barnor malitere ịmụ ọrụ na nwa nwanne nna ya JP Dodoo, onye na-ese foto a ma ama, "na-esekarị foto ndị mmadụ n'ihi na mgbe ị na-ese foto nke ifuru na ebe ọ nweghị onye ga-akwụ ha ụgwọ. Emere m nke ahụ maka abụọ. Ọtụtụ afọ mana m na-achọkarị ịbụ onye uwe ojii, etinyere m akwụkwọ ka m bụrụ onye uwe ojii na-ese foto, a nabatakwara m ya, mana tupu m amalite ọzụzụ nwanne nna m nyere m igwefoto o ji ese foto. [12]

Ever Young Studio

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Mgbe ọ gụchara ọzụzụ ahụ, o guzobere omume foto nke onwe ya ("Emere m ọtụtụ mmepe na ibipụta ndị enyi, yana ịse foto. Akpọrọ m ụlọ ọrụ m FS James Barnor's Quick Photo Service - FS bụ aha m nke mbụ, maka Frederick Seton. Ọ bụrụ na ị wetara m ihe ndị ahụ na-adịghị mma, ị ga-enweta foto ndị ahụ n'echi ya.") [13] n'otu ụlọ ọrụ na-emepụta ihe n'okporo ámá dị na Jamestown nke isi obodo, na-eji azụ azụ n'èzí ụlọ ya mgbazinye. [3] Mgbe onye nwe ya chọrọ iweghachite ụlọ ahụ, site na 1953 Barnor malitere ịrụ ọrụ ụlọ ọrụ Ever Young Studio. [14] Aha ya sitere na isiokwu nke ihe nghota bekee ọ gụrụ dịka nwata akwụkwọ, nke akpọrọ " Iduna 's Grove", banyere chi nwanyị Norse na-enye apụl anwansi iji nye ntorobịa ebighi ebi; [15] ọ bụkwa ihe ntụnye aka na omume a na-atụ anya imegharị ihu ndị oche ka ha zuo oke - "Ogologo oge tupu Photoshop adị, ị ga-eji pensụl mee ihe. M ga-emegharị foto ndị ahụ iji mee ka ndị mmadụ yie nwata." [7]

N'ịbụ nke dị nso na ụlọ oriri na ọṅụṅụ Seaview a ma ama, ụlọ ihe nkiri ahụ "n'oge na-adịghị anya dọtara ngwakọta nke ndị ahịa sitere na ezinụlọ ruo ndị na-eri oriri abalị na ndị isi". [3] N'ime ndị ahụ ọ sere foto bụ onye isi ala Ghana mbụ n'ọdịnihu Kwame Nkrumah (nke e sere na-agba bọọlụ n'otu n'ime ogbunigwe Barnor), onye ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị pan-African JB Danquah, [16] Sir Charles Arden-Clarke (gọvanọ Britain ikpeazụ nke Gold Coast). ), Duchess nke Kent wee bụrụ onye osote onye isi ala America Richard Nixon (mgbe ọ gara emume nnwere onwe Ghana na March 1957), yana onye mmeri ịkụ ọkpọ Roy Ankrah . [17]

Akwụkwọ akụkọ foto na eserese kwa ụbọchị na Drum

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Barnor na-enyocha akwụkwọ akụkọ Drum

Ọrụ ebipụtara

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James Barnor: Ever Young, akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ nke ọrụ ya, bipụtara na 2015 (Clémentine de la Féronnière / Autograph ABP,  ) n'akụkụ ihe ngosi Paris ya, gụnyere nnukwu ajụjụ ọnụ na Barnor na mkparịta ụka ya na Margaret Busby na Francis Hodgson. [18]

Nkwenye na nsọpụrụ

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A na-anọchi anya foto Barnor na mkpokọta Victoria na Albert Museum, Tate and Government Art Collection na Britain.

E kwuwo banyere ya: "Onye na-ese foto bụ James Barnor bụ ịkwatu Ghana (na mgbe e mesịrị na 1960 Black Britain) ihe Oumar Ly bụ na Senegal ma ọ bụ Malick Sidibe na Seydou Keita na Mali."

N'afọ 2011, Barnor nwetara onyinye GUBA (Ghana UK-Based Achievement) [19] pụrụ iche "Nrite Ndụ Ndụ". Mgbe ọ natara ya, o gosiri na ọ bụ onyinye mbụ e nyere ya.

N'October 2016, n'ịkwado onyinye ya pụtara ìhè na mmepe Ghana, e nyere Barnor Order nke Volta, nke President John Dramani Mahama nyere ya na National Honors and Awards Ceremony nke e mere na Accra International Conference Center . [20]

Enyere Barnor onyinye nkwanye ugwu nke Royal Photographic Society na 2020. [21]

Na February 2022, aha Barnor na CasildART's list of the top six Black British photographers, n'akụkụ Charlie Phillips, Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock, Pogus Caesar na Vanley Burke . [22]

Ọgụgụ ọzọ

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Edensibia

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  1. "James Barnor", Serpentine Galleries.
  2. Alexandra Genova, "Party time! The photographer who captured the other swinging sixties", The Guardian, 29 November 2019.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kwaku, "Lucky Jim, still working at 81", New African, April 2011, pp. 80–82.
  4. James Barnor biography at Victoria and Albert Museum.
  5. Tiffani Jones, "Secret History of the Black Pinup: Drum Magazine and James Barnor", Coffee Rhetoric, 23 August 2012.
  6. "Black Cultural Archives Launches Exciting Heritage Programme to Commemorate Ghana's Golden Jubilee", Community Archives and Heritage Group, 7 March 2007.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Kate Salter, "Colour me beautiful: James Barnor's photographs for Drum magazine", Fashion, The Telegraph, 7 December 2010.
  8. "Work of Medway-trained photographer in new archive", BBC Kent, 7 December 2010.
  9. "Photos: James Barnor 'Ever Young'", Okayafrica, 28 June 2012.
  10. "Ghana – A Heritage Ever Young", GHStreets.com.
  11. James Barnor at Baudoin Lebon.
  12. 12.0 12.1 "Picture This – Photographer James Barnor Looks Back at 60 Years Behind the Camera", Nowness, 25 September 2010.
  13. Riason Naidoo, "Photographer James Barnor – Ever Young at 90", Mail & Guardian, 21 June 2019.
  14. Audrey Quaye, "Upcoming exhibition of James Barnor's Photography at Harvard University's WEB DuBois Institute starting on Thursday, January 28th, 2010", Modern Ghana, 25 January 2010.
  15. James Barnor page at Autograph shop, audio of Barnor speaking.
  16. James Barnor, Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer and one of the first to introduce colour processing to Ghana (en-US). Ghanaian Museum (2019-12-25). Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved on 2020-02-07.
  17. James Barnor: Ever Young, Autograph ABP.
  18. Rudi Thoemmes (5 October 2015). James Barnor - Ever Young. RRB Photobooks. Retrieved on 30 March 2021.
  19. GUBA Awards - Awarding Excellence (en-US). www.gubaawards.co.uk. Retrieved on 19 April 2018.
  20. Jonas Nyabor, "Mahama confers national honors on 33 personalities", Citifmonline, 30 October 2016.
  21. Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Retrieved on 23 March 2021.
  22. 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.