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Whilst living in London in the 1960s, Barnor took fashion and lifestyle photographs for Africa’s first black politics and lifestyle magazine, Drum. His photograph of Drum model Eva gives a new face to modern glamour, recording the emergence of cosmopolitan urban society for a trans-national readership.\r\n\r\nThe V&A acquired five photographs by James Barnor as part of the Staying Power project. Staying Power is a five year partnership between the V&A and Black Cultural Archives. The project aims to explore black British experience from the 1950s to the 1990s through photographs acquired by the V&A and oral histories conducted by Black Cultural Archives.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Black and white, square format photograph depicting a young woman's shoulders and face. Taken from behind the sitter's left shoulder, she looks back over her shoulder, directly at the camera; smiling slightly. A three-globed silver earring hangs from her left ear, which is covered by her beehive hairstyle. 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Although intended as personal mementos for\r\nthe sitters, his studio photographs also record changes\r\nin Ghanaian society in the 1950s and ’60s. Policewoman\r\nSelina Opong, who poses in one of the photographs, was\r\none of the first female police officers to graduate from the\r\nnewly established police academy in Accra. Barnor later\r\nmoved to London, where his reportage work for magazines\r\nshowed the emergence of a modern, multicultural city.\n\r\nGelatin silver prints (printed 2011)\r\nMuseum nos. E.102, 104 to 106-2012","date":{"text":"16/02/2015-24/05/2015","earliest":"2015-02-16","latest":"2015-05-24"}}],"partNumbers":["E.104-2012"],"accessionNumberNum":"104","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2012,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Limited Edition Number","id":"THES57639"},"number":"2/10"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-03-25","recordCreationDate":"2012-03-07","availableToBook":false}}