Braids, from the portfolio Burkina Faso
Artist
Lucinda W. Bunnen
(American, 1930-2022)
Printer
Dean Imaging, Marietta, GA
(founded 2001)
CultureAmerican, African, Burkinabe (Burkina Fasian)
Date2003, printed 2007
MediumCarbon pigment inkjet print
Classificationsphotographs
Credit LineGift of Lucinda W. Bunnen
Object number2012.29.2.4
DescriptionLarge tree in a landscape, one of 14 photos from the Burkina Faso portfolio:Gray clothbound portfolio box, embossed "Burkina Faso," with a title sheet, two blank sheets, an essay sheet, and fourteen photographs in mylar sleeves: 1.Baobab Tree; 2. Seed Baskets; 3. Water Vessels; 4. Braids [missing at present]; 5. Twenty-first Century; 6. City Lady; 7. Initiates; 8. Le Petit Coin; 9. Dancer; 10. Voodoo; 11. Masks; 12. AIDS Patient; 13. Mother + Baby; 14.Doorway
Title sheet reads: Burkina Faso/photographs by Lucinda Bunnen/Edited by Richard Eagan/Piezography carbon pigment inkjet prints/on Hahnemuhle Museum Etching rag paper/produced by Dean Imaging, Atlanta Georgia, 2007.
Essay sheet contains one-page July 2005 essay entitled "Art and Life in Burkina Faso: Land of Upright People" by Carol Thompson, Fred and Rita Curator of African Art, High Museum of Art.
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