{"product_id":"james-barnor-the-roadmaker","title":"James Barnor — The Roadmaker","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"566\"\u003eThis photobook by James Barnor, published by RRB Photobooks in 2021, is part of the Darwin collection because it threads together a singular career that spans the visual landscapes of Accra and London from the 1950s onward, revealing a practice shaped as much by modernist experimentation as by lived postcolonial transitions. \u003cem data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"443\"\u003eThe Roadmaker\u003c\/em\u003e is both a retrospective and a metaphor: Barnor builds a visual road through independence, migration, diaspora, and return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"1080\"\u003eAs Ghana’s first international press photographer, Barnor captured Accra on the cusp of independence with luminous studio portraits and vivid streetscapes, before relocating to the UK where he photographed Black British life in a newly multicultural London. The book moves across these geographies and decades with ease—from intimate black-and-white images of hair salons and homes to staged colour portraits bathed in the palettes of 1970s fashion, always balancing documentary immediacy with a formal elegance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1082\" data-end=\"1497\"\u003eThe publication accompanied exhibitions at Bristol Museum and the Serpentine in 2021, and includes an essay by Dr Damarice Amao that helps situate Barnor’s output within the wider context of African modernism and diasporic identity. Tactile and expansive, \u003cem data-start=\"1338\" data-end=\"1353\"\u003eThe Roadmaker\u003c\/em\u003e is not just a survey of images, but a roadmap of one man’s crossings between continents, mediums, and eras—photography as a bridge across time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1518\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1518\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1520\" data-end=\"1837\"\u003eTitle: \u003cem data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1557\"\u003eJames Barnor — The Roadmaker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1560\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: James Barnor\u003cbr data-start=\"1589\" data-end=\"1592\"\u003eDate: 2021\u003cbr data-start=\"1602\" data-end=\"1605\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Black-and-white and colour photography\u003cbr data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"1675\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardback with cloth cover\u003cbr data-start=\"1720\" data-end=\"1723\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 27.5 × 30\u003cbr data-start=\"1749\" data-end=\"1752\"\u003ePages: 64\u003cbr data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1764\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: RRB Photobooks\u003cbr data-start=\"1798\" data-end=\"1801\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1818\" data-end=\"1821\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52432034431314,"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_54dd6def-381a-4bfa-96a8-c084dfb5ffa2.jpg?v=1768386442","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/james-barnor-the-roadmaker","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}