70’s Lifestyle

© Samuel Fosso. Courtesy the artist, and Jean Marc Patras, Paris

Currently not on view

70’s Lifestyle,

1976–78, printed 2022

Samuel Fosso, born 1962, Kumba, Cameroon; active Bangui, Central African Republic; Aba, Nigeria; and Paris, France

2022-198
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Samuel Fosso: A Transnational Artist in a Postcolonial World

Information

Title
70’s Lifestyle
Dates

1976–78, printed 2022

Maker
Samuel Fosso
Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 46.7 × 46.7 cm (18 3/8 × 18 3/8 in.) sheet: 64.9 × 50.6 cm (25 9/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund

Object Number
2022-198
Culture
Nigerian, Cameroonian
Type
gelatin silver prints, photographs

[Purdy Hicks Gallery]; purchased by Princeton University Art Museum, November 2022.

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