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Life and afterlife in Benin

by Okwui Enwezor, Alex Van Gelder

A collection of black-and-white portrait photography captured in Benin during the 1960s and 1970s, published here for the first time.

Accession 4834 ISBN 0714845132 Publisher Phaidon Press
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