James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective

This fully illustrated retrospective traces the six-decade career of London-based Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, from London to Accra and back again.Barnor has spent his career shifting seamlessly between continents and genres, from studio portraiture to photojournalism to social documentation.With a particular focus on the decades between 1950 and 1980, the included selections are drawn from Barnor's extensive but little-seen archive.The book includes a new conversation between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist, along with a series of commissioned texts by architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, head of the photographic collection at Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Christine Barthe, visual artist David Hartt, former model Erlin Ibreck, and curator Alicia Knock.This publication accompanies James Barnor’s major solo exhibition, Accra/London – A Retrospective, presented at the Serpentine Galleries, London (2021), MASI Lugano (2022), and the Detroit Institute of Arts (2023).(shop.serpentinegalleries.org)