ISBN:
9780821423943
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9780821423936
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 351 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
New African histories
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ambivalent
DDC:
302.2/26
Keywords:
Visual sociology
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Photography Social aspects
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History
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Africa Social conditions
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History
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Fotografie
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Sichtbarkeit
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Fotografie
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Identität
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Politik
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Geschichte
;
Afrika
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Fotografie
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Geschichte
;
Afrika
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Dokumentarfotografie
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Bildpublizistik
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Afrika
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Postkolonialismus
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Fotografie
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Schwarze
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Südafrika
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Fotografie
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Apartheid
Abstract:
"Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography-and with visibility more generally-in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Authors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography into an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent's contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories."--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 313-337. - Register
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Introduction : Africa and the ambivalence of seeing
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Ambivalent mediations : photographic desire, anxiety, and knowledge in nineteenth-century Central Africa
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Empty photographs : ethnography and the lacunae of African history
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Unstable forms : photography, race, and the identity document in South Africa
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The pass photograph and the intimate photographic event in South Africa
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Photographic genres and alternate histories of independence in Mozambique
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Photography, mass violence, and survivors : the Cassinga Massacre of 1978
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Images of ambivalence : photography in the making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia
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The profane and the prophetic at a South African beach
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Photographing Asọ Ebì : of surfacism and digitality
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Boko Haram insurgency and a new mode of war in Nigeria
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Mirrors and waters : the practice and the visual in Beninese Mami Wata cults
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Coda : an expanded milieu
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