Author: Jafa, ArthurOver several decades, American filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa has constructed a compelling body of work that defies categorisation. Both powerful and lyrical, his practice combines a profoundly unsettling blend of images and histories. This richly illustrated catalogue reproduces key works from Jafa’s wide-ranging oeuvre and explores the philosophical, historical and artistic implications of his practice, featuring essays and a series of conversations between Jafa and his contemporaries.Bringing together affective memories that touch on US history, violence, repression, modalities of survival and how these exist in the production and dissemination of images, music, sound and time-based media, Jafa reflects on the ontology of race and Blackness. Arthur Jafa (born 1960) grew up in Mississippi, where his lifelong fascination with found imagery manifested in his childhood hobby of assembling binders of photographs culled from various sources. As a cinematographer and director of photography, Jafa has collaborated with Stanley Kubrick, Solange Knowles and Spike Lee, among many others. His work on Julie Dash’s 1991 film 'Daughters of the Dust' won him the Best Cinematography award at Sundance. At the 2019 Venice Biennale, he was awarded the Golden Lion for 'The White Album'. Jafa lives and works in Los Angeles.ISBN 9783753307916. Walther König, Köln. hb. 360 pages. 157 colour, 98 b/w ills. 30.5 x 22.9 cm.in stock
