Selected Bibliography
Articles & Reviews
Natacha Wolinski, « Samuel Fosso le caméléon, on stage à Paris », in The Art Newspaper n° 37, January 2022
Clémentine Mercier, « Samuel Fosso. Une rétro par miracles », in Libération, 4 December 2021
Valérie Duponchelle, « Samuel Fosso, fier autoportrait de l’Afrique », in Le Figaro, 19 November 2021
Claire Guillot, « Les métamorphoses de Samuel Fosso », in M, le Magazine du Monde, 17 November 2021
Frédérique Chapuis, « La MEP expose Samuel Fosso, l’homme aux mille visages », in Télérama Sortir, 3 November 2021
Simon Njami, « Samuel Fosso, Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde », in Fisheye n° 50, November-December 2021
« Fosso Fashion 2021 », in A#22. A Magazine Curated by Grace Wales Bonner, November 2021
David Doucet, « Le pape est noir! », in Big Bang. L’almanach des possibles, May 2021
Luc Sante, « The Best Books to Give This Year: Photography », in The New York Times Book Review, 6 December 2020
Claire Guillot, « Regards éclairés au musée du quai Branly », in Le Monde, 3 October 2020
Letizia Dannery, « Dans l’objectif de Samuel Fosso », in L’Express, 13 August 2020
Alex Greenberger, « The Future Now: 10 African Artists to Watch », in ARTnews.com, 18 July 2018
Valérie Duponchelle, « Le musée du quai Branly voit le monde contemporain en photos », in Le Figaro, 2 July 2020
Raphäel Turcat, « Dans l’objectif de Samuel Fosso », in A toi appartient le regard, supplément Beaux-Arts & Cie Editions, June 2020
Gloria Crespo MacLennan, « Samuel Fosso : “Un día habrá un papa negro que será de Africa” », in El Pais, 7 June 2018
« Samuel Fosso y Leopoldo Zugaza, premios PHotoEspaña y Bartolomé Ros », in El Cultural, 4 June 2018
David Doucet, Portfolio « L’Afrique du futur », in Les Inrocks n° 1150, 9 December 2017
Nicolas Michel, « Biennale africaine de la photographie : Samuel Fosso, un pape noir à Bamako », in Jeune Afrique, 4 December 2017
Theresa Sigmund in conversation with Azu Nwagbogu, « LagosPhoto 2017 Delves into our Post-truth World », in Contemporary And, 13 December 2017
James Estrin with Azu Nwagbogu, « Telling Complex Truths About Africa at LagosPhoto Festival », in The New York Times Lens Blog, 27 November 2017
Georg Seeßlen, « Da hilft nur Kunst. Zwischen Propagart und Artivismus: Anmerkungen zur Münchner Schau “After the Fact” », in Der Freitag, Ausgabe 28, 2017
Cassie da Costa, « The unsettling power of MoMA’s “Unfinished Conversations” », in The New Yorker, 21 June 2017
« The Lives of Samuel Fosso. A Conversation with Yves Chatap », in Aperture 227 « Platform Africa », Summer 2017
Finbarr O’Reilly, « Looking at New Generations of African Photographers », in The New York Times Lens Blog, 8 May 2017
Thomas J. Lax, « Unfinished Conversations: An Essay », MoMA’s exhibition review, 14 March 2017
Inês Nadais, « Samuel Fosso, o fotógrafo de si próprio », in Publico, 4 November 2016
Ekow Eshun, « The subversive power of the black dandy », in The Guardian, 4 July 2016
Kelly Crow, « The New Face of African Art », in The Wall Street Journal, 11 May 2016
Mark Hudson, « Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, review : an intriguing snapshot of performance art » in The Telegraph, 16 February 2016
Olu Oguibe, « Samuel Fosso : Emperor of Africa », in Aperture n° 221, Winter 2015
Jonas Cuénin, « New York Walther Collection: Samuel Fosso », in The Eye of Photography, October 2014
Haby Niakate, « Photographie: Samuel Fosso, un dandy à Cotonou », in Jeune Afrique, 23 April 2014
Vincent Duhem, « Samuel Fosso. La Centrafrique dans le sang », in Jeune Afrique n° 2771, 16-22 February 2014
Jérôme Delay, « Bangui, mémoire pillée », in Le Monde, 7 February 2014
Jérôme Delay, « Artwork Looted, but Not Lost », in The New York Times, 6 February 2014
Teo Kermeliotis, « Lagos PhotoFestival puts mega city in the spotlight », in CNN, 13 November 2013
« African art star Samuel Fosso returns to boyhood home Nigeria », in Kuweit Times, 8 November 2013
« L’Amérique noire entre au musée », in Courrier international n° 1064, 24-30 March 2011
Brigitte Ollier, « Samuel Fosso, le Narcisse Noir », in Libération, 3 August 2010
Leslie Camhi Shatters, « A Man of A Thousand Faces. Samuel Fosso’s Mask », in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Spring 2009
Zadeh, Susan A. (edited by), « Meeting Samuel Fosso » in Eyemazing issue 01, Amsterdam, Pictures Booklets Publishers B.V., pages 50-57, 2009
Olu Oguibe, « In The Beginning Was The Self. Self-Portraiture in Samuel Fosso’s Art Photography », in FOAM international photography magazine # 17, Winter 2008
Mark Hudson, « Art that gets to the heart of Africa », in The Telegraph, 22 January 2005
Holland Cotter, « When the I Is the Subject, and It’s Always Changing », in The New York Times, 12 September 2003
Jessica Taylor, « Here’s looking at me », in The Guardian, London, 27 June 2002
Hommes Vogue n° 6, Paris, Fall 1999 – Winter 2000
Jennifer Higgie, « Samuel Fosso », in Frieze n° 39, London, March-April 1998
« L’aventure ego de Samuel Fosso », in Jeune Afrique, Paris, 1995
Brigitte Ollier, « L’Ibo de Bangui qui se trouvait beau », in Libération, Paris, 23 October 1995
Books
Christine Barthe, Samuel Fosso, Photo Poche n° 168, Editions Actes Sud / Photofile, Thames & Hudson Ltd, June-July 2022
Mark Sealy, Photography: Race, Rights and Representation, London, Lawrence & Wishart, March 2022
Christian Gattinoni & Yannick Vigouroux, Les Fictions documentaires en photographie, Nouvelles éditions Scala, December 2021
Dr. Kenneth Montague (edited by), As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, Aperture Editions, November 2021
Studio Photo Nationale, Sébastien Girard & Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, November 2021
Charlotte Jensen, Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty-First Century, Lewes, UK, Octopus Publishing Group in collaboration with Tate, April 2021
À toi appartient le regard (…) et la liaison infinie entre les choses, exhibition catalogue, Paris, co-edition musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac / Actes Sud, July 2020
Steven Evens & Mark Sealy, African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other, FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Schilt Publishing, 2020
Okwui Enwezor (edited by), Samuel Fosso : Autoportrait, Steidl / The Walther Collection, New York. Text by Quentin Bajac, Yves Chatap, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Terry Smith, Claire Staebler, James Thomas, April 2020
Samuel Fosso: SIXSIXSIX, With a conversation between Samuel Fosso and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Steidl & The Walther Collection, New York, April 2020
MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Publications, 2019
Phil Taylor, « Samuel Fosso », in Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 2019
Clément Chéroux, « Samuel Fosso », in La Voix du voir. Les grands entretiens de la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Xavier Barral Editions, June 2019
« Samuel Fosso. Photographic Self-Explorations » in Anne-Marie Beckmann (edited by), XL Photography 6. Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag, May 2019
Christa Clarke (edited by), Arts of Global Africa : The Newark Museum Collection, January 2018
David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier & Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (edited by), The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, USA & London, UK, 2017
Jeanne Mercier, « In the style of Samuel Fosso », in Being of photographer in Africa, the 10 years of Afrique in visu, Editions Clémentine de la Feronnière, Paris, October 2017
What Does the Image Stand For ?, MOMENTA/Biennale de l’image 2017, Montreal, catalogue, Kerber Verlag, August 2017
Odile Marais (edited by), « Analyse d’image : S. Fosso, Le Chef – celui qui a vendu l’Afrique aux colons » in L’écho des Lettres. Manuel de Français pour les classes de 1re, Editions Belin, Paris, 2016, page 272
Simon Baker & Fiontan Moran (edited by), Performing for the Camera, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing, 2016
In the Studio, exhibition catalogue (In the Studio: Photographs curated by Peter Galassi), New York, Gagosian Gallery & Phaidon, 2015
David Bindman & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2 : The Rise of Black Artists, Harvard University Press, October 2014
Vanessa K. Valdés, The Future is Now. A New Look at African Diaspora Studies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012
Simon Njami (edited by), Samuel Fosso, Paris, Editions Revue Noire, November 2010
Okwui Enwezor, Contemporary African Photography from The Walther Collection, Göttingen, Steidl Verlag, 2010
Okwui Enwezor & Chika Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, Bologna, Damiani, 2009
Quentin Bajac & Clément Chéroux (edited by), Collection photographies: une histoire de la photographie à travers les collections du Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2007
Isolde Brielmaier, « I am not myself: a quick take on the photographs of Samuel Fosso and Tracey Rose », in Masquerade. Representation and the self in contemporary art, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 2006
Marie-Laure Bernadac (edited by), Africa Remix: l’art contemporain d’un continent, Paris, Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2005
Maria Francesca Bonetti & Guido Schlinkert (edited by), Samuel Fosso, exhibition catalogue, Roma, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. With texts by Okwui Enwezor, Guido Schlinkert & Maria Francesca Bonetti. 5 Continents Editions, Milano, 2004
Mette Mortensen, Christian Rud Andersen, Gertrud With (edited by), Geometry of the Face, exhibition catalogue, Copenhagen, Det Nationale Fotomuseum – Det Kongelige Bibliotek, 2003
Antonia Carver (edited by), Blink. 100 Photographers, 010 Curators, 010 Writers, London-New York, Phaidon Press, 2002
Magnus Af Petersens (edited by), Samuel Fosso. Seydou Keïta. Malick Sidibé. Portraits of Pride, exhibition catalogue, Stockholm, Raster Förlag, 2002
Stuart Hall & Mark Sealy (edited by), Different, London, Phaidon Press, October 2001
Wim Melis, Tom Brœkhuis (edited by), Africa Inside, exhibition catalogue, Groningen, Aurora Borealis, 2001
Pep Subiros (edited by), Africas. The Artist and the City. A Journey and an Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, Actar, 2001
Okwui Enwezor (edited by), The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, exhibition catalogue, Munich-London-New York, Prestel, 2001
Michael Thoss (edited by), Portrait Africa: Photographische Positionen eines Jahrhunderts, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2000
Studio Photo, 50/50 Tati, exhibition catalogue, Göttingen, Steidl, 1998
Jean Loup Pivin & Pascal Martin Saint-Léon (edited by), Anthologie de la Photographie Africaine et de l’Océan Indien, Paris, Editions Revue Noire, 1998
Mounira Khemir (edited by), Retrats de l’anima: Fotografia Africana, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, Diagonal, 1997
Claire Bell, Okwui Enwezor, Danielle Tilkin, Octavio Zaya (edited by), In/sight : African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, exhibition catalogue, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996
Creative Camera, London, August-September 1995
Revue Noire n° 15, Paris, 1994