{"id":4792,"date":"2017-01-03T19:45:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2017-01-03T19:45:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:45:19","slug":"west-african-masks-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/west-african-masks-in-use\/","title":{"rendered":"West African masks in use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4793\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1079-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1079-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1079-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1079-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1079-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This photo of Kple Kple and Kpan Pre masked dancers during a Goli performance, Kondeyaokro village, Ivory Coast, was just sent to me by David Norton, the African arts dealer. So I thought I&#8217;d share them with you as well.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> American photographer Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973)\u00a0spent decades traveling around Africa. A pioneer in color photography, he worked as a color consultant on\u00a0Hollywood movies and changed Western perceptions of \u2018the Dark Continent\u2019 and about African Art with his book <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iEdUJw\">Sculpture of Africa 1978<\/a> ( <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iEdUJw\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iEdUJw)<\/a>\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/flashbak.com\/african-masquerades-incredible-photos-of-tribal-masks-1942-1972-37764\/\">These pictures are from his collection of African masquerades (1942-1972)<\/a> curated at the\u00a0National Museum of African Art. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">See the images here:\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/flashbak.com\/african-masquerades-incredible-photos-of-tribal-masks-1942-1972-37764\/\">http:\/\/flashbak.com\/african-masquerades-incredible-photos-of-tribal-masks-1942-1972-37764\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo of Kple Kple and Kpan Pre masked dancers during a Goli performance, Kondeyaokro village, Ivory Coast, was just sent to me by David Norton, the African arts dealer. So I thought I&#8217;d share them with you as well. American photographer Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973)\u00a0spent decades traveling around Africa. A pioneer in color photography, he worked as a color consultant on\u00a0Hollywood movies and changed Western perceptions of \u2018the Dark Continent\u2019 and about African Art with his book Sculpture of Africa 1978 ( http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iEdUJw)\u00a0 These pictures are from his collection of African masquerades (1942-1972) curated at the\u00a0National Museum of African Art. See the images here:\u00a0 http:\/\/flashbak.com\/african-masquerades-incredible-photos-of-tribal-masks-1942-1972-37764\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4794,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/4794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}