The first Jean Depara’s retrospective

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Maison Revue Noire presents the first Jean Depara’s retrospective (1928-1997). Each of these 150 photographies show the Leopoldville (later Kinshasa) bars/dancings crazy nights when the country access to the independance. Everyone experiences those moments when the modern world finally becomes accessible to them, regardless of wether Black or white. In Leopoldville, later knows as Kinshasa, this is taken for the “American way of life”, its cars and fashionablr Bills in cowboy outfits, the electric guitars, sax and the music that takes the merengue, the cha cha cha and above all the rumba into a mad dance known word-wide as “Zairian music”.
Via : lalettredelaphotographie.com

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