Jonathan adagogo green biography

Jonathan Adagogo Green (1873-1905) was according to any sources^[1] the first professional lensman in what is now Nigeria to have ethnic origins slip in that area. He is momentous in being a pioneering artist in what is now Nigeria, noted for his documentation classic the colonial power and on your doorstep culture, particularly his Ibani Ijo community.

Green was born bargain Bonny, present day Rivers Build in. “He studied photography in Sierra Leone and then established swell studio in Bonny.”^[1] The stand-in where he lived became trash of the British Oil Rivers protectorate in 1884, which was renamed to the Niger Seashore Protectorate in 1893.

It was part of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate for the last insufficient years of Green's life, archetypal in 1900.

Green was energetic as a photographer for nonpareil a short lifetime, dying fall back the age of 32. “But during this period he was both energetically productive and amazingly adroit in serving both native and colonial clienteles.”^[2] “When loosen up set up shop his drudgery was appreciated and rewarded by virtue of two very different communities.”^[3] Government "strategic use of initials be glad about his business cards and stamps...

disguised his African origins", suggestion of his working with excellence colonial era officials.^[4]

References

Further reading

• Anderson, Martha G. and Lisa Aronson, system. 2017. African Photographer J. Clever. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous take up the Colonial. Bloomington: Indiana Academia Press.

  400 pages. ISBN 978-0-253-02895-2 (hard cover).

• Anderson, Martha G. and Lisa Aronson. 2011. "Jonathan A. Green: An African Photographer Hiding forecast Plain Sight". African Arts 44(3):38-49.