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Get it while it's 🔥 HOT 🔥 Shortlisted for the @aperturefnd @parisphotofair First PhotoBook Award, @marilyn.nance 'Last Day in Lagos' is Back in Stock from @cara_the_org 🔥🔥⁠ ⁠ Nance writes: "If you want to see what it looked like to have 17,000 Africans gathered together from across the continent and the diaspora, living, sharing, thinking and performing together for 30 days in what was essentially a temporary Pan-African nation. Then this book is for you. I am here to tell you that it happened. I was there. This is what they didn’t teach you in Art History class—or your Black History class. These images of time and place reflect my romantic notions of Pan-African unity, my nostalgia for this incredible celebration of world culture, and hint at the terrors to come after the festival's end. For this reason, this book of FESTAC ’77 photographs is named 'Last Day in Lagos.'" ⁠ ⁠ Edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. Foreword by Julie Mehretu. Text by Antawan I. Byrd, Uchenna Ikonne, Tsitsi Ella Jaji. Afterword by Marilyn Nance. Bibliography by Zakiya Collier, Chisom Ilogu.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos #festac77 @festac77archive @oluremi.onabanjo @fourthwall_books⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CkgnjEmJ7TP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Get it while it's hot! @jcljules profiles 'Last Day in Lagos' photographer @marilyn.nance in this week's @newyorkermag⁠ ⁠ "In January, 1977, while most Americans were busy watching 'Roots,' 17,000 people convened in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (#festac). A monthlong extravaganza that featured delegations from more than 50 countries, it has been described as the most important Black cultural event of the twentieth century—the high-water mark of a pan-African spirit unmatched before or since. There were concerts and colloquia, film screenings, art shows, and even a regatta. Wole Soyinka lectured, Miriam Makeba sang, and Jayne Cortez denounced global capitalism in verse. Nigeria’s oil boom financed the construction of a national stadium and a dedicated festival village, where guests from across the continent and its diaspora formed lasting bonds. For Marilyn Nance, then a 23-year-old photographer from Brooklyn, it was an opportunity to connect with her roots that was infinitely more exciting than the travails of Kunta Kinte. 'festac was the Olympics, plus a Biennial, plus Woodstock,' she told an interviewer in a new book. 'People have positioned it as science fiction, but it really did happen.'"⁠ ⁠ Also: "Nance’s photography scrambles the nameless and the notable, mirroring the spirit of a festival that leveled boundaries even as it celebrated difference."⁠ ⁠ Read the full profile via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ 'Last Day in Lagos' is published by @cara_the_org ⁠ ⁠ ⁠Edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. Foreword by Julie Mehretu. Text by Antawan I. Byrd, Uchenna Ikonne, Tsitsi Ella Jaji. Afterword by Marilyn Nance. Bibliography by Zakiya Collier, Chisom Ilogu.⁠ ⁠ #marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos @festac77archive @oluremi.onabanjo @fourthwall_books⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CkQyHYHuUq4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Congratulations to 'Last Day in Lagos' photographer @marilyn.nance editor @oluremi.onabanjo and publisher @cara_the_org on yesterday's remarkable book launch and opening reception for this wonderful new NYC space designed by #6aarchitects.⁠ ⁠ A warmer, more celebratory environment could not be found, including a reception and occasional signing in the beautifully appointed bookstore, 3 choral performances of 'Hymn to the Strange' by 8 singers of @the_unsungcollective as part of the first solo exhibition 'A Mass of Cyborgs' by South African artist and composer #NeoMuyanga (curated by CARA executive director @manu_moscoso ) and an impromptu reading by legendary actor, playwright, producer and activist who was present at FESTAC77, Vinie Burrows. ⁠ ⁠ #marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos #festac77 @festac77archive @fourthwall_books⁠ #cara #caratheorg #theunsung #massofcyborgs #hymntothestrange #vinieburrows ⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CjNwLhEuvTi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"'Last Day in Lagos' spotlights a body of work made while @marilyn.nance served as the photographer for the US contingent of the North American delegation. At the time that she attended FESTAC, it was her first journey outside the US. Capturing the pulsing ceremonies and cheering crowds; among her subjects are fellow artists, such as Ellsworth Ausby, Valerie Maynard, and Wadsworth Jarrell; cultural leaders and activists, like Distinguished Elder Queen Mother Audley Moore and Fela Kuti; and internationally acclaimed performers, including Miriam Makeba, Stevie Wonder and Sun Ra…"⁠ ⁠ See photos + rich captions from new release 'Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos' today @guardian via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Also: Celebrate Nigerian Independence Day today, Saturday, October 1 at 12 PM at @cara_the_org — where Nance will launch the book, edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. ⁠ ⁠ Foreword by Julie Mehretu. Text by Antawan I. Byrd, Uchenna Ikonne, Tsitsi Ella Jaji. Afterword by Marilyn Nance. Bibliography by Zakiya Collier, Chisom Ilogu.⁠ ⁠ The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)⁠ Saturday, October 1, 2022: 12 PM⁠ 225 West 13th Street⁠ New York, NY 10011⁠ ⁠ #marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos #festac77 @festac77archive @oluremi.onabanjo @fourthwall_books⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLHM1yMr62/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Must-read. ⁠@siddharthamitter profiles 'Last Day in Lagos' photographer @marilyn.nance with editor @oluremi.onabanjo in today's @nytimes⁠ ⁠ "Hers is the deepest individual image archive to have emerged from FESTAC ’77 — a major contribution on those grounds alone, but also a long-overdue focus on the early work of an important Black photographer who herself has only recently earned proper institutional notice. (Images from subsequent projects have appeared recently in the “Greater New York” exhibition at @momaps1 and “The Dirty South,” organized by the @vmfamuseum )⁠ ⁠ In Lagos, Nance brought her own cameras and film, and moved as she pleased. She hung out in FESTAC Village and joined excursions to meet Nigerian artists in other cities. She didn’t have a strategy for her images. But she was drawn to the edges, quiet moments, faces in the crowd — the festival as four weeks of daily life, not a succession of stage happenings.…"⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio and attend the book launch tomorrow, October 1, at 12PM @cara_the_org (Yes, that's Nigerian Independence Day!) ⁠ ⁠ Book edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. Foreword by Julie Mehretu. Text by Antawan I. Byrd, Uchenna Ikonne, Tsitsi Ella Jaji. Afterword by Marilyn Nance. Bibliography by Zakiya Collier, Chisom Ilogu.⁠ ⁠ The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)⁠ Saturday, October 1, 2022: 12 PM⁠ 225 West 13th Street⁠ New York, NY 10011⁠ ⁠ #marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos #festac77 @festac77archive @fourthwall_books⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CjI4_pvOT7Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"We’re all endowed with these powers, and I think we just need to acknowledge that. We’re all really special; we all have stuff. But it’s up to us to find out what our stuff is.” Marilyn Nance (1953-present) #marilynnance #blackhistorymonth #womenshistorymonth #ekwetzel

Community Baptism, Baba Ishangi Exercise, 1986, photographed by Marilyn Nance #inspired #marilynnance #blackis