Author: FRÉGER, Charles
Title: Charles Fréger - Cimarron - Freedom and Masquerade.
Description: London, Thames & Hudson, 2019. 23.5 x 18.5 cm. 320 pp. Hardcover. Illustrated in colour throughout. - Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish-American term for fugitive former slaves, is a new series of photographic portraits of their descendants. From Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean islands and Central America, as far as the southern United States, elaborate masquerades are staged that celebrate and keep alive the history and memory of African slaves and their creole or mixed-race descendants. Stock characters are portrayed in costume, or in grotesque or satirical representations. - New copy

Keywords: 9780500022467


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