Samuel Fosso
Self Portrait (Businessman)

Self Portrait (Businessman)

© 1997 Samuel Fosso, courtesy JM. Patras / Paris

Self Portrait (Businessman)
Self Portrait (Businessman)
ArtistCameroonian, born 1962
CultureCameroonian
Titles
  • Self Portrait (Businessman)
Date1997, printed 2003
PlaceCameroon, Africa
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 42 3/4 × 34 in. (108.6 × 86.4 cm)
Sheet: 50 3/16 × 39 7/8 in. (127.5 × 101.3 cm)
Frame: 55 1/16 × 45 1/16 × 1 1/2 in. (139.8 × 114.4 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Nina and Michael Zilkha
Object number2004.811
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionSamuel Fosso’s Tati series continues the artist’s career-long approach of casting himself in different personas. While this series was created with the assistance of studio technicians and made in color, these differences did not change Fosso’s motivation. “Taking pictures is for me a way of liberating myself from the sufferings of childhood, from illness, war, everything,” he noted. “I always believed that my life would be pushed aside by other people. But photography has given me a second life. It’s made all lives possible for me.”
Provenance[Jack Shainman Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2004.
Exhibition History"Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 27–November 8, 2020.

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