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Publisher Note

All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish-American term for these fugitive slaves, is a new series of photographic portraits of their descendants by photographer Charles Fréger.
From Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean islands, Central America, and as far as the southern United States, elaborate masquerades are staged that celebrate and keep alive the history and memory of African slaves and their creole or mixed-race descendants.

Photobook

Cimarron

— Freedom and Masquerade

by Charles Fréger

Publisher
Release Place London, United Kingdom
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2019
Credits
Artist: Charles Fréger
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 9780500022467
Work  
Topics Africans, Masquerades, Portraits, Slaves, Staged Photography
Language English
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 18.2 × 23.6 cm
Pages 322