{"product_id":"cimarron-freedom-and-masquerade-charles-freger-2019-foreword-by-ishmael-reed","title":"CIMARRON: Freedom and Masquerade — Charles Fréger, 2019, Foreword by Ishmael Reed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"153\" data-end=\"163\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eCIMARRON\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, French photographer Charles Fréger documents Afro-descendant masquerade traditions across the Americas—visual rituals born of resistance, survival, and spiritual inheritance. Shot in countries including Haiti, Brazil, Suriname, and Trinidad, this body of work honours the legacy of the Cimarron: enslaved Africans who escaped bondage and formed free communities outside colonial rule.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"983\"\u003eFréger’s portraits are theatrical, front-facing, and saturated with myth. Painted skin, raffia skirts, horns, feathers, talismans—each figure appears as both symbol and person, standing against textured backdrops that heighten the sense of deliberate staging. These are not ethnographic records. They are charged, constructed images, acknowledging both the beauty and the political weight of masquerade as a form of embodied memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1376\"\u003eThe book opens with a dedication “To Solitude (1772–1802)”, invoking the Guadeloupean rebel who resisted French colonisers—an anchor that reframes the entire project within Black resistance history. Fréger's formal approach might recall Samuel Fosso or Phyllis Galembo, but \u003cem data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1269\"\u003eCIMARRON\u003c\/em\u003e carves its own path, forging a visual grammar where costume becomes defiance and visibility becomes power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1378\" data-end=\"1708\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"1393\" data-end=\"1396\"\u003eTitle: CIMARRON: Freedom and Masquerade\u003cbr data-start=\"1435\" data-end=\"1438\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Charles Fréger\u003cbr data-start=\"1469\" data-end=\"1472\"\u003eDate: 2019\u003cbr data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"1485\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1520\" data-end=\"1523\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover\u003cbr data-start=\"1552\" data-end=\"1555\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 20 × 26\u003cbr data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1590\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1607\" data-end=\"1610\"\u003ePages: Unstated\u003cbr data-start=\"1625\" data-end=\"1628\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr data-start=\"1663\" data-end=\"1666\"\u003eISBN: 978-0-500-54484-7\u003cbr data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"1692\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52605225304402,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_a965169c-15e9-45e7-8ece-4553e3436c40.jpg?v=1769895142","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/cimarron-freedom-and-masquerade-charles-freger-2019-foreword-by-ishmael-reed","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}