The King pictured
Subtitle: ekifananyi kya Muteesa
By: Andrea Stultiens
Series: Ebifananyi -- 8
Publisher: HIPUganda; Paradox
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Kampala]; Edam
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789081187947
Subjects: Artists' books; Vernacular photography; Photograph collections; Photographers; Photography; Portrait photography; Families; Pictorial works; History; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Notes: Cover title.

Ebifananyi is an eight volume set. Book 4 and 8; on the first appearance and nature of photographic pictures in Uganda. The two books in the Ebifananyi series with (light and dark) blue covers bring forth the conceptual relationship between photographs and other two-dimensional likenesses. They also consider the relationship between photographs and documented and undocumented histories.

Designed by Andrea Stultiens.

"History in Prograss Uganda collects and publishes photographs from (private) collections and archives in and about Uganda"--Colophon.
Table of contents: title: Ebifananyi 8; title: The King Pictured; title: Ekifananyi Kya Muteesa. Ekifananyi Kya Muteesa presents a collective visual research into the social and cultural biography of the first photographic portrait made of a king in Buganda. The photograph was made by explorer Henry Morton Stanley in 1875 and was barely known in Uganda when Andrea Stultiens started this research. Interpretations of this picture are known and in use in the country. Stultiens traced the relation between the photograph and the interpretations and invited Ugandan artists to make their own version of 'a picture of Muteesa'. Among them are Canon Griffin, Daudi Karungi, Eria Nsubuga, Eva Ddembe, Fred Mutebi, Fred Ndaula, Henry Mzili Mujunga, Ian Mwesiga, Jacob Odama, Margaret Nagawa, Martha Namutosi, Matt Kayem, Mukiza, Nathan Omiel, Papa Shabani, Piloya Irene, Ronex Ahimbisbwe, Sanaa Gateja, Timothy Erau, Violet Nantume and Wasswa Donald. Each one of these interpretations contributes to a contemporary understanding of the photograph and brings forth an alternative for the engraving that is based on the photograph. This engraving was published in a book by H.M. Stanley. Stultiens considers to be a misinterpretation of the photograph and explains why in this book.