Organized By The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
150 South Rd,Chapel Hill (35.907564, -79.050165)
Exhibition Opening and talk with curator Renée Mussai James Barnor: Ever Young The Sonja Haynes Stone Center in partnership with Autograph ABP presents a retrospective of James Barnor’s street and studio photographs, spanning Ghana and London from the late 1940s to early 1970s. James Barnor’s career covers a remarkable period in history, bridging continents and photographic genres to create a transatlantic narrative marked by his passionate interest in people and cultures. Through the medium of portraiture, Barnor’s photographs represent societies in transition: Ghana moving towards its independence and London becoming a cosmopolitan, multicultural metropolis. The exhibition showcases a range of street and studio photographs – modern and vintage - with elaborate backdrops, fashion portraits in glorious colour, as well as social documentary features, many commissioned for pioneering South African magazine Drum during the ‘swinging 60s’ in London. Presented by the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History in partnership with Autograph ABP. An Autograph ABP touring exhibition curated by Renée Mussai. This event is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center at UNC Chapel Hill. James Barnor: Ever Young is on display at the Stone Center’s Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum from September 22 through October 28, 2016.