Maria LaYacona (1926-2019) bụ onye na-ese foto amụrụ America nke rụrụ ọrụ na Jamaica. N'ime afọ iri atọ mbụ ya, ọ bụ onye na-ese foto maka ụlọ ọrụ ihe nkiri mba nke mba ahụ.[1]

Oge ọ malitere

dezie

Nne na nna LaYacona siri na Italy kwaga America ma amuru ya na Cleveland, Ohio, na 18 Novemba 1926. Nna ya na-agbazi ihe onyonyo site na ulo ezinulo ya na nwanne ya nwoke ma nyere ya aka n'ime ulo gbara ọchịchịrị ya. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Winona School of Professional Photography na Winona Lake, Indiana, tupu ọ kwaga New York City na 1950 ebe ọ kwadoro onwe ya site na ịse foto maka mgbasa ozi ọha na eze na agbamakwụkwọ ọha.[1][2][2]

Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka Oge nta akụkọ foto maka Time and Life ma, na 1955 nabatara ọrụ site na Sports Illustrated, na-aga Jamaica iji gbaa usoro nnwale n'etiti Australia na West Indies na Sabina Park.[3] Mba ahụ masịrị ya ma laghachi n'otu afọ ahụ wee nọrọ ndụ ya fọdụrụ na Jamaica.[1][3]

Ọrụ ya na Jamaica

dezie

Iji kwado onwe ya, ọ nabatara ọrụ maka mgbasa ozi na nkwalite njem nleta ma webata nchịkọta foto ụlọ akwụkwọ na mba ahụ, mana mmasị ya bụ foto.[4] Foto ya nke Praịm Minista Michael Manley pụtara na akwụkwọ ego $ 1,000.[2][5] Ọ na-ese foto ndị na-ese ihe na ndị ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị, yana ndị Jamaica kwa ụbọchị - onye ọkụ azụ na-arụ ọrụ, na ụmụaka na-egwuri egwu.[1]

N'afọ 1964, afọ abụọ mgbe e guzobesịrị ya, ọ sonyeere National Dance Theatre Company dị ka onye na-ese foto, ọkwá ọ nọgidere na ya ruo mgbe ọ lara ezumike nká na 1992. [1][4] E bipụtara foto ya nke ndị na-agba egwú n'akwụkwọ abụọ, Roots and Rhythms (1969) na Dance Jamaica: Renewal and Continuity (1985). [1] E gosipụtakwara ọtụtụ foto ịgba egwú ya na stampụ akwụkwọ ozi nke Jamaica.

Ka ọ na-erule afọ 2000, LaYacona lara ezumike nká n'ụlọ dị na Kingston. Ọ nwụrụ na 28 Eprel 2019. [3]

Akwụkwọ ndị e bipụtara

dezie
  • Roots and Rhythms (1969)[1]
  • Dance Jamaica: Renewal and Continuity (1985)[1]
  • Jamaica Portraits (1998)[3][1]
  • Jamaica Reverie (2006)[3][1]

Ebem si dee

dezie
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 In Memoriam Maria Layacona (1926 – 2019). National Gallery of Jamaica Blog (30 April 2019). Retrieved on 26 January 2022. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name "ngoj" defined multiple times with different content
  2. Templeeti:Cite magazine
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Zacca. "Maria LaYacona – First Lady of Jamaican photography", Jamaica Gleaner, 12 May 2019. Retrieved on 27 January 2022. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name "zacca" defined multiple times with different content
  4. 4.0 4.1 Johnson. "A Picture-Perfect Life", Jamaica Observer, 30 April 2019. Retrieved on 27 January 2022. Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name "johnson" defined multiple times with different content
  5. Grange hails portraitist Maria LaYacona. Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport (30 April 2019). Retrieved on 27 January 2022.