Being There
Published by Textuel
By Omar Victor Diop &
The Anonymous Project
(Lee Shulman)
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, Diop intrudes
into worlds where he was
not invited, in the context
of post-war segregated
America, as if he had always
been part of the setting.
Shulman and Diop propose
a new way of stirring minds
and questioning representations,
with humor. Their performance
acts as an eye-opener.
Hard cover
Size 29 x 27 cm
104 pages
2 500 copies
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Being There
Published by Textuel
By Omar Victor Diop &
The Anonymous Project
(Lee Shulman)
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, Diop intrudes
into worlds where he was
not invited, in the context
of post-war segregated
America, as if he had always
been part of the setting.
Shulman and Diop propose
a new way of stirring minds
and questioning representations,
with humor. Their performance
acts as an eye-opener.
Hard cover
Size 29 x 27 cm
104 pages
2 500 copies