Esprit 2
Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian, born 1962
1985
Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 16 1/8 × 20 in. (40.9 × 50.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Alvin and Mary Bert Gutman 1940 Acquisition Fund
PH.2003.30.3
Geography
Place Made: Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in black ink, lower right: Angele Etoundi Essamba 85'; numbered, in black ink, lower left: #14/20; signed and inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, above center: c [encircled] Angele Etoundi / Essamba / Esprits 2 - 1985 / #14/20.
Course History
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015
HIST 66/AAAS 15, History of Africa Since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Winter 2021
Exhibition History
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Made in the Middle: Constructing Black Identities across the African Diaspora, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology 3, Winter 2015, Chelsey Kivland, Teaching Exhibition, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 15, 2014-March 15,2015.
Skoto Gallery, New York, 2002.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 305, figure 9.7.
Provenance
Skoto Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2003.
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