Susan Vogel photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Vogel, Susan M.
place: label: Place
content: Côte d'Ivoire
label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Baule (African people)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Vogel, Susan M.
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection is comprised of photographs taken by Susan Vogel in Côte d'Ivoire during the 1970s.  Most depict the Baule peoples, including during their Goli Dance in Bokpli.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Susan Mullin Vogel (1942-) lives in New York, grew up in Beirut, and has lived for long periods in the Ivory Coast and Mali. Vogel has a PhD in art history and has held the positions of curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Founding Director of the Museum for African Art, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, and Professor of Art History at Columbia.  Vogel also holds an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and now makes films.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 672 Slides (photographs) ((1 volume), color)
label: Extent
content: 361 Negatives (photographic) ((1 box), black and white, 35 mm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: between 1970-1979
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Susan Vogel, 1999.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1999-008
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Color slides
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Negatives arranged chronologically. Slides were arranged by the donor.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Negatives
label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of (482) color slides and (381) black and white negatives taken by Susan Vogel.  Her negatives, taken between circa 1972 and circa 1986, primarily depict the arts and culture of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire.  In particular, Vogel extensively documents scenes of Goli dance performances and the variety of masks and instruments used therein.  Also included are several images of wooden figure sculptures—alone or as a part of ancestral shrines.  Other Baule art pieces documented within Vogel's negatives are ancestral stools, diviners' gongs and mallets, war belts, and bo mun amuin masks.  Several of these images are published in Baule: African Art, Western Eyes (exhibition catalogue, 1997).  Vogel also documents puppet masquerade performances among the Bamana people of Mali.