ISBN:
9781138953079
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 389 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
770.96
Keywords:
Fotografie
;
Visuelle Ethnologie
;
Afrika
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Fotografie
;
Afrika
;
Visuelle Ethnologie
Abstract:
1. Introduction. Stereoscopic visions: reading colonial and contemporary African photography / Kylie Thomas and Louise Green -- 2. Photographs from the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South Africa, 1890-1907 / Rory du Plessis -- 3. Of bodies captured: the visual representation of the Paarl march and Poqo in apartheid South Africa / Bianca van Laun -- 4. Post-abolition Angola in a post-colonial mission archive: a preliminary contextualisation of a photograph from the Spiritans' mission in Malange, northern Angola, 1904 / Madalina Florescu -- 5. Forward, Ever Forward: a reading of Robert Harris, Photographic Album of South African Scenery, Port Elizabeth, c. 1880-1886 / Michael Godby -- 6. From salons to the native reserve: reformulating the "native question" through pictorial photography in 1950s South Africa / Phindezwa Mnyaka -- 7. Mining photographs: David Goldblatt's On the Mines / Sally Gaule --
Abstract:
8. One hundred years of suffering? "Humanitarian crisis photography" and self-representation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Aubrey Graham -- 9. Social documentary and personal investigations in contemporary South African photography: Tracey Derrick's "One in Nine" series / Meghan Kirkwood -- 10. Re-covered: Wangechi Mutu, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and the postcolonial potentiality of black women in colonial(ist) photographs / Kanitra Fletcher -- 11. An interview with George Hallett / John Edwin Mason -- 12. "I never didn't take a picture": on photojournalism and conflict -- an interview with Greg Marinovich / Paul Weinberg and Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk -- 13. Introduction -- A density of texture: reading photography from South, North and West Africa / Louise Green and Kylie Thomas -- 14. Fractured compounds: photographing post-apartheid compounds and hostels / Svea Josephy --
Abstract:
15. Photographic portraits of migrants in South Africa: framed between identity photographs and (self-)presentation / Marietta Resting -- 16. Remembrance: the Essop brothers, formative realism and contemporary African photography / Rael Jero Salley -- 17. The politics of portrait photographs in southern Nigerian newspapers, 1945-1954 / Rouven Kunstmann -- 18. A lightness of vision: the poetics of Relation in Malian art photography / Allison Moore -- 19. In search of African history: the re-appropriation of photographic archives by contemporary visual artists / Erika Nimis -- 20. From myth to history: Ethiopia and Eritrea's transformations in four photographic works / Marian Nur Goni -- 21. The aesthetic and practical fields of excrementality of L'boulevard festival / Moulay Driss El Maarouf -- 22. The aftermath of oppression: in search of resolution through family photographs of the forcibly removed of District Six, Cape Town / Siona O'Connell
Abstract:
This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary photography and practices of self-representation; and with the place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power. This book was originally published as two special issues of Social Dynamics
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