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Rainer Elstermann (b..

Rainer Elstermanns' "Photo Studio"

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The German photographer, Rainer Elstermanns, imagined an old photo studio set in rural Kenya in his studio in Berlin.

Rainer Elstermann was born in West-Berlin in He took his first self-portrait-photographs when he was 17 years old.

Osnabrück: Meinders und Elstermann, Google Scholar.

Rainer Elstermann (b.

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He dressed models in period costumes. The result is a 17-minute film and a series of 40 recreations. Elstermann writes that he was inspired by the work of the great African photographers and artists, Samuel Fosso and Malick Sidibe, as well as the American photographer, Irving Penn.

The result was exhibited in The Netherlands until earlier this week.

(I am assuming it will come to the US soon.)

Information and more photographs: Here, here and here.

— Sean Jacobs

Sean Jacobs, Founder and Editor of Africa is a Country, is on the faculty of The New School and a Shuttleworth Fellow.

A sweeping, jazz-scored exploration of Cold War intrigue and African liberation, Johan Gimonprez’s ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ lays bare the cultural and political battlegrounds where empire