First edition of Being There by Omar Victor Diop & The Anonymous Project (2023)

First impression 

Large format hardback in near fine condition 

Signed, dated and located by Omar Victor Diop and Lee Shulman to title page

Some slight sunning to spine

Some very slight toning to extremities of pages

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm

About

This book is the fruit of a jubilant collaboration: filmmaker Lee Shulman, creator of The Anonymous Project, invited Omar Victor Diop, a Senegalese self-portraitist, to insert himself into the anonymous photographs in his collection of American slides from the 1950s and 60s. Images of ordinary celebrations, primarily featuring white, privileged middle-class families posing around a table to celebrate a birthday, at the beach, amidst a barbecue, or in front of their gleaming houses. Diop thus inserts himself into worlds to which he was not invited, within the context of post-war segregated America, as if he had always been part of the picture. Shulman and Diop offer a new way to stir minds and question representations, with humor. Their performance acts as a catalyst.