BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Richmond -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts -- Africa

VA -- Richmond -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts -- Africa:

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1. VMFAAF_140112_17.JPG: Africa! To see it is to look over cast expanses of land, along rolling savannahs and across sun-baked deserts, into tropical forests and toward cool highlands. To explore it is to discover a motherland that has cradled humanity from its origins several million years ago to today's Dakar, Lagos, Nairobi, and other cosmopolitan cities. To know Africa is to meet its many people and to witness their expressions of religious beliefs, their social customs, and their life experiences, through a spectacular array of stories, music, dance, and art. Welcome to your African Art Collection, held here in trust for the people of Virginia and the world. These objects are beacons of human vitality and creativity, as well as important historical documents. But they were not meant to stand motionless or to be viewed solely for their form or craftsmanship. Instead, they were meant to be used: to be worn in civic pageantry and religious ceremonies, placed on altars for devotion, or danced in expressive masquerades. African Art speaks! Some of these objects communicate with gods and spirits, while others reveal a person's status. Still others are used to resolve conflicts or convey wisdom and traditions to new generations. To communicate their messages, these objects are inscribed with meaning and infused with symbolic content, making them a rich visual literature that can be "read" by those for whom and by whom they were made. Here, we are privileged to tap into that vocabulary. Collections are never complete. The VMFA's African collection will continue to develop, adding contemporary trends not yet represented and, where possible, rare works from antiquity. We hope you will find your experience here exciting and enriching.
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA), Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles). Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers". Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.
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