Chosen Pictures from The Marc & Evelyne Bernheim Assortment – International Research Weblog

A brand new exhibition is at present on view in Knox Corridor, 2nd Flooring Hallway, 606 West 122nd Avenue, New York. Open to Columbia associates solely. Curated by Dr. Yuusuf Caruso, African Research Librarian, Columbia College, and co-sponsored by The Institute of African Research and Columbia College Libraries.

This exhibition is only a very small pattern from an in depth historic {photograph} assortment on day by day life in Africa through the Nineteen Sixties, lately acquired by The Uncommon E book & Manuscript Library of Columbia College. Marc & Evelyne Bernheim had been Euro-American photojournalists who sought to doc what they noticed as “Africa’s new significance” and its “hurry for change, trying to mix progress with custom.” In the course of the Nineteen Sixties, they traveled to and photographed in lots of components of Africa and produced a physique of labor that included books for younger folks about “trendy” and “conventional” Africa. Additionally they equipped photographs for The New York Instances, Conde Nast, Ebony, Life, and different media shops, encylopedias, literary anthologies, and publications for organizations akin to UNICEF and the New Haven Public Faculties in Connecticut.

The twenty-six chosen photographs on show encompass black-and-white or coloration portraits of nameless and notable African males, ladies, and youngsters, in chosen city and peri-urban facilities of Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, and Zambia. They embody artists, athletes, enterprise folks, dramatists, educators, historians, musicians, workplace staff, photographers, politicians, college students, and writers.

Prime: Papa Ibra Tall (Senegal); Afi Ekong (Nigeria); Chinua Achebe (Nigeria); Chantal Lawson (Togo); Backside: Girma Belachew (Ethiopia); Geoffrey Geturo & Starehe Faculty boys (Kenya); Chingola younger musicians (Zambia). Courtesy of Columbia College Libraries.

These Africans captured on movie some sixty years in the past represented the embodiment of the hopes and goals of a dynamic, newly unbiased Africa.

Earlier than turning into skilled photographers, Marc Bernheim, born in France, was a chemical engineering pupil at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and earned a M.Sc. from Columbia College and Evelyne Bernheim, born in Austria, was a graduate of Barnard School and earned a Masters’ diploma in “Hispanic Research” from Columbia. Each individuals are actually deceased. Books by Marc and Evelyne Bernheim embody: From bush to metropolis: a have a look at the brand new Africa (1968) ; Every week in Aya’s world: the Ivory Coast (1969) ; African success story: the Ivory Coast (1970) ; The drums converse: the story of Kofi, a boy of West Africa (1971) ; and, In Africa (1973).