Dedication
Forewords: Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Yusuf Abdallah Usman
Preface: Through the Lens of Benin-Edo Cultural Heritage: The Photography of Chief S.O. Alonge by Theophilus Umogbai
Introduction: Preserving a Fragile Legacy: Forging Ties with a Nigerian Community by Amy J. Staples
The Royal Court of Benin
Chapter 1
Imaging | Imagining: S.O. Alonge, Photography, and Visual Culture in Benin, Nigeria by Amy J. Staples
Chapter 2
Remembering Solomon Osagie Alonge | Revisiting History by Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
Chapter 3
Redeeming the Image of the Benin Monarchy and People by Tam Fiofori
Long sidebar: Photographing the Oba of Benin by George Osodi
Plates
Royal court
Benin Visual Culture
Chapter 4
Art as a Medium of Recording: Precolonial Benin Revisited by Daniel E. Inneh
sidebar
Benin Plaques and Alonge Photographs
Chapter 5
Photographic Recordkeeping in Benin: Ancient and Modern by Kokunre Agbontaen Eghafona
Sidebar
Commemorative Textiles
The Ideal Photo Studio
Chapter 6
The Ideal Photo Studio: S.O. Alonge as Artist-Photographer-Social Documentarian by Amy J. Staples
sidebar: Dame Merry Oritsetimeyin Ehanire
sidebar: Francis Edo Osagie
long sidebar
Enis Ehikhamenor interview
Plates
Ideal Photo Studio
S.O. Alonge Collection [artifacts]
Notes
Selected Reading
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Photography Credits
Index
gatefold
Benin Timeline: A Selected History of the Obas