Photography
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR
James BARNOR

Introduction

Born in 1929 in Accra, James Barnor is considered a pioneer of Ghanaian photography. He carried out international commissions for Drum (an influential African magazine). In his studio "Ever Young", established in Accra in the 1950s, he captured societies in transition: the accession to independence of his country, then the Swinging London of the 1960s, the capital of the United Kingdom becoming a multicultural metropolis. When he returned to settle permanently in Ghana in the early 1970s, he was one of the first African photographers to work with color film.

Biography

Solo shows

 

2021


James Barnor, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK

James Barnor : Accra/London – A retrospective, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

 

2020

 

James Barnor: A Retrospective, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana

 

2019


La vie selon James Barnor, Gerard Sekoto Gallery, Johannesburg

 

2019


 Colors, Galerie Clémentine de la Férronnière, Paris

 

2018

 

La vie selon James Barnor, Gallery 1957 Kempinski Hotel, Accra, Ghana

La vie selon James Barnor, Mupho Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis, Saint Louis, Sénégal

 

2017

 

It’s great to be young, photographies de James Barnor et Marc Riboud, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris 

Ever Young, Musée du quai Branly, vitrine jardin, Paris

La vie selon James Barnor, 11e biennale des Rencontres de Bamako, Bamako, Mali

 

2015


Ever Young, exposition itinérante (présentée à la Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière)

 

2007


Mr Barnor’s Independence Diaries, Black Cultural Archives, London



Collective exhibitions


2021


 Todd Webb in Africa, Outside the frame, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Harrison Photography Gallery, Minneapolis, Etats-Unis

 

2019-2020

 

20 ANS, Les acquisitions du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris

 

2019


Paris-Londres, Music Migrations (1962- 1989), Musée de la Porte Dorée, Paris

 

2012


Another London, Tate Modern, Londres

 

Exhibitions

Malala Andrialavidrazana / James BARNOR / Alain CLEMENT / Christian COURREGES
Malala Andrialavidrazana / James BARNOR / Steeve BAURAS / Calvin DONDO / EM'KAL / Hakintola HANIF / Kilunaji Kia HENDA / Amina MENIA / Lawson Daku N'KRUMAH / Grace NDIRITU / Abraham OGHOBASE