Esprit 2

Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian, born 1962

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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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