This series of extraordinary photographic portraits by Charles Fréger brings to life the vivid costumes used in festivals by the descendants of African slaves in America.
All across the Americas, from the sixteenth century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarrón, borrowing a Spanish-American term for these fugitive former slaves, is a new series of photographic portraits of their descendants by acclaimed photographer Charles Fréger, whose work is defining a new genre of documentary photography. From Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean islands, Central America, and 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.
Unique photographs of people in dynamic costumes from remote regions of the world will enthrall followers of social history, ethnic folklore, and unusual fashion experimentation. Vividly colored silks and cottons combine with woven fibers, leaves, feathers, and body paint; props include emblems of slavery and slave masters― ropes, sticks, guns, and machetes. These photographs, supplemented with texts by specialists in social anthropology to provide ethnographic and historical context, record real people whose collective sense of memory, folk history, and imagination dramatically challenge our expectations. 200 color illustrations

Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade

Arts & Photography

Fréger, Charles

Photography & Video

Thames&Hudson

A celebration of Indian folk rituals and costumes bursting with color, captured by renowned photographer Charles Fréger, who brings a distinctive and powerful vision to the genre of portrait photography. 
In AAM AASTHA, internationally renowned photographer Charles Fréger continues to spotlight global traditions and cultures by celebrating the powerful visual aspects of Indian folk culture and religious ritual. India is home to a myriad of local traditions, legends, and religions, each with their own festivals, rites, and ceremonies. Celebrations burst with vivid colors and often wildly exuberant costumes, some representing gods and goddesses, others legendary heroes from Sanskrit epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. 
Fréger’s unmistakable style of portraiture emphasizes the complexity of these adornments―masks and headdresses, costumes, and body paint―and the abundance of imagination that expresses India’s countless stories and characters, both human and divine. 
This spectacular gathering of warrior figures, deities, musicians,epic characters, and their avatars is accompanied by texts by novelist and journalist Anuradha Roy and philosopher and critic Catherine Clément, who contextualize the events, as well as descriptions of individual costumes, masks, and rituals by Kuhu Kopariha. This compelling sequence of new portraits will enthrall those with an interest in folk traditions, as well as the followers of this internationally acclaimed photographer. 250 color illustrations

AAM AASTHA: Indian Devotions

Chaque anne, dans toute l'Europe, de la France la Bulgarie, de la Finlande la Sardaigne, du Portugal la Grce en passant par la Suisse et l'Allemagne, des hommes, le temps d'une mascarade multisculaire, entrent littralement dans la peau du "sauvage". En devenant ours, chvre, cerf ou sanglier, homme de paille, diable ou monstre aux mchoires d'acier, ces hommes clbrent le cycle de la vie et des saisons. Leurs costumes, faits de peaux de btes ou de vgtaux, sertis d'ossements ou ceinturs de cloches, chapeauts de cornes ou de bois de cerfs, sidrent par l'extraordinaire diversit et la prodigieuse beaut de leurs formes.

Charles FrEger Wilder Mann ou la figure du sauvage /franCais

A gorgeously photographed glimpse into the "island of monsters"―the world of Japanese folk masks, characters, and costumes In Japan, the passing of the year is marked by festivals and rituals that have gone largely unchanged for centuries. Elaborate outfits, made from textiles as well as branches, straw, and other materials plucked from the natural environment, are donned in rural, agricultural, and fishing communities throughout Japan to celebrate seasonal rites of fertility and abundance. Yokainoshima (literally “island of monsters”) explores the extraordinary crop of masks, costumes, and characters that reappear with the return of each season. Charles Fréger’s photographs combine the attention to detail of a documentary photograph with individual portraiture in a fresh and distinctive style. Texts by specialists in Japanese folk culture and anthropology accompany the photographs, putting the huge variety of eclectic costumes in context with descriptions of the local festivals, dances, and rituals where they are worn. This compelling sequence of new portraits by an internationally acclaimed photographer will captivate enthusiasts of fine art photography and far off places as it pulls back the curtain on a strange and magical centuries-old tradition. 180 color illustrations

Yokainoshima: Island of Monsters

The rituals are centuries old and celebrate the seasonal cycle, fertility, life, and death. People literally put themselves into the skin of the "savage," in masquerades that stretch back centuries. By becoming a bear, a goat, a stag, a wild boar, a man of straw, a devil, or a monster with jaws of steel, these people celebrate the cycle of life and seasons. The costumes amaze with their extraordinary diversity and prodigious beauty. Work on this project took leading French photographer Charles Fréger to eighteen European countries in search of the mythological figure of the Wild Man.

Wilder Mann: The image of the Savage

Individual Artists

Dewi Lewis Publishing

AAM AASTHA: Incarnations et divinités en Inde

Clément, Catherine

Roy, Anuradha

Actes-sud

Parade: Les éléphants peints de Jaipur

Saturno, Carole

Children's Books

GRANDES PERSONN

Depuis le XIXe sicle, le Japon fascine l'Occident. Missions scientifiques et voyages de dcouverte explorent sa culture complexe, nourrie par un syncrtisme et une nature imptueuse. Perptuant cette qute de dcouverte et d'ouverture tous les horizons, le muse des Confluences de Lyon propose une rencontre indite, entre sa collection japonaise et les photographies de Charles Frger. En dialoguant, le Japon d'hier et celui d'aujourd'hui rendent sensibles les liens entretenus entre monde des hommes et monde des esprits.

Esprits du Japon - Charles Fréger et la collection japonaise du Musée des confluences

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