The African Photographic Archive

Author : Christopher Morton,Darren Newbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000213041

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The African Photographic Archive by Christopher Morton,Darren Newbury Pdf

African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating photographic collections have come to light. This volume explores the complex theoretical and practical issues involved in the study of African photographic archives, based on case studies drawn from across the continent dating from the 19th century to the present day. Chapters consider what constitutes an archive, from the familiar mission and state archives to more local, vernacular and personal accumulations of photographs; the importance of a critical and reflexive engagement with photographic collections; and the question of where and what is ‘Africa’, as constructed in the photographic archive. Essential reading for all researchers working with photographic archives, this book consolidates current thinking on the topic and sets the agenda for future research in this field.

Author : Tina Campt
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822350743

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Image Matters by Tina Campt Pdf

Campt explores the affective resonances of two archives of Black European photographs for those pictured, their families, and the community. Image Matters looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbean migrants to Britain taken at a photographic studio in Birmingham between 1948 and 1960.

Author : Lorena Rizzo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429800030

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Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa by Lorena Rizzo Pdf

This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as a distinct historical form. Through use of private and public archives, images produced by African itinerant photographers, white settlers, and colonial state institutions, this book explores the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa. Late nineteenth century Cape Colonial prison albums, police photographs from German Southwest Africa, African studio portraits, identity documents, travel permits and passports from the 1920s and 1930s, visual studies of whiteness and blackness authored by settler photographers, South African dompas photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, and aerial photography from the Eastern Cape in the mid-twentieth century are examined to highlight the ways in which photographic images cut across conventional institutional boundaries and complicate rigid distinctions between the private and the public, the political and the aesthetic, the colonial and the vernacular, or the subject and the object. Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa argues that rather than understanding photographs as a means of preserving and recreating the past in the present, we can value them for how they evoke at once the need for and the limits of historical reconstruction. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial history, photographic history, visual media, and African studies.

Author : Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation,Olu Oguibe,Octavio Zaya
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0892072822

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In/Sight: African Photographers 1940 to the Present by Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation,Olu Oguibe,Octavio Zaya Pdf

Essays by Okwui Enwezor, Olu Oguibe, and Octavio Zaya. Introduction by Clare Bell.

Author : Sissy Helff,Stefanie Michels
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783839430064

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Global Photographies by Sissy Helff,Stefanie Michels Pdf

How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs.

Author : Awam Amkpa,Walther Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : 3869306513

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African Photography from the Walther Collection by Awam Amkpa,Walther Collection Pdf

Distance and Desire offers new perspectives on the African archive, reimagining its diverse histories and changing meanings. Presenting an extraordinary range of portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages from Southern and Eastern Africa, as well as recent photography and video art.

Author : Christraud M. Geary
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0856675520

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In and Out of Focus by Christraud M. Geary Pdf

This book accompanies an exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, on the role of photography in Central Africa. This is the first book to link two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas, and sentiments in Europe and the US relating to the peoples of Central Africa; and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project images of themselves by becoming familiar with photographic technology. Broad in thematic and temporal scope, the book focuses on several time periods, especially on the years before and between the two world wars. This is also the first publication devoted to the important holdings of the Eliot Elisofen Photographic Archives, a department of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution and a unique repository with more than 200,000 historical and contemporary images from all over Africa. This book raises important issues associated with photographic practice in Africa, the distribution of images, the circulation of ideas in Europe and the US, and African responses to photography through several poignant case studies. This book also advances the scholarly discourse on colonial/anthropological photography, and contributes to a better understanding of African responses to photography.

Author : Richard Vokes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847010537

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Photography in Africa by Richard Vokes Pdf

Gives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contemporary practice. This collection of studies in African photography examines, through a series of empirically rich historical and ethnographic cases, the variety of ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and engaged across a range of social contexts. In so doing, it elucidates the distinctive characteristics of African photographic practices and cultures, vis-à-vis those of other forms of 'vernacular photography' worldwide. In addition, these studies develop areflexive turn, examining the history of academic engagement with these African photographic cultures, and reflecting on the distinctive qualities of the ethnographic method as a means for studying such phenomena. The volumecritically engages current debates in African photography and visual anthropology. First, it extends our understanding of the variety of ways in which both colonial and post-colonial states in Africa have used photography as a means for establishing, and projecting, their authority. Second, it moves discussion of African photography away from an exclusive focus on the role of the 'the studio' and looks at the circulations through which the studios' products - the photographs themselves - later pass as artefacts of material culture. Last, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between photography and ethnographic research methods, as these have been employed in Africa. RICHARD VOKES is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and author of Ghosts of Kanungu

Author : Darren Newbury,Lorena Rizzo,Kylie Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000182699

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Women and Photography in Africa by Darren Newbury,Lorena Rizzo,Kylie Thomas Pdf

This collection explores women’s multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa. The book offers new ways of thinking about the history of photography, exploring through case studies the complex and historically specific articulations of gender and photography on the continent, and attending to the challenge and potential of contemporary feminist and postcolonial engagements with the medium. The volume is organised in thematic sections that present the lives and work of historically significant yet overlooked women photographers, as well as the work of acclaimed contemporary African women photographers such as Héla Ammar, Fatoumata Diabaté, Lebohang Kganye and Zanele Muholi. The book offers critical reflections on the politics of gendered knowledge production and the production of racialised and gendered identities and alternative and subaltern subjectivities. Several chapters illuminate how contemporary African women photographers, collectors and curators are engaging with colonial photographic archives to contest stereotypical forms of representation and produce powerful counter-histories. Raising critical questions about race, gender and the history of photography, the collection provides a model for interdisciplinary feminist approaches for scholars and students of art history, visual studies and African history.

Author : Lorena Rizzo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429800047

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Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa by Lorena Rizzo Pdf

This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as a distinct historical form. Through use of private and public archives, images produced by African itinerant photographers, white settlers, and colonial state institutions, this book explores the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa. Late nineteenth century Cape Colonial prison albums, police photographs from German Southwest Africa, African studio portraits, identity documents, travel permits and passports from the 1920s and 1930s, visual studies of whiteness and blackness authored by settler photographers, South African dompas photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, and aerial photography from the Eastern Cape in the mid-twentieth century are examined to highlight the ways in which photographic images cut across conventional institutional boundaries and complicate rigid distinctions between the private and the public, the political and the aesthetic, the colonial and the vernacular, or the subject and the object. Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa argues that rather than understanding photographs as a means of preserving and recreating the past in the present, we can value them for how they evoke at once the need for and the limits of historical reconstruction. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial history, photographic history, visual media, and African studies.

Author : Kylie Thomas,Louise Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317358244

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Photography in and out of Africa by Kylie Thomas,Louise Green Pdf

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 a special issue of Social Dynamics.

Author : Derek Peterson,Richard Vokes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783791386454

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The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin by Derek Peterson,Richard Vokes Pdf

This trove of recently discovered photographs offers an unprecedented opportunity to take a closer look at Idi Amin's dictatorship and its impact on Ugandan history. Chosen from a collection of 70,000 negatives from the archive of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, the images in this remarkable collection were taken by Amin's personal photographers between the 1950s and mid-1980s. Like many dictators, Amin used photography as a means of spreading propaganda that would flatter his regime while obscuring its failures and abuses. Organized into thematic sections, these photographs show how Amin sought to gain support for acts such as his expulsion of tens of thousands of South Asians in 1972 and for the "Economic War," in which citizens charged with petty theft were tried and executed. There are also fascinating insights into the ways Amin hoped to promote Ugandan arts and culture, including a food-eating competition in Kampala and ceremonial visits to remote villages. The book includes revelatory archival documents recently unearthed concerning the Amin government. Essays by the authors, both experts in the field, help provide a context for the archive, as well as insights into how the lessons learned from this dark period of African history can shine a light towards a brighter future for Uganda and its people.

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015033270557

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Photographs as Sources for African History by Andrew Roberts Pdf

Author : Clare Bell,Okwui Enwezor
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015036093766

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In/sight by Clare Bell,Okwui Enwezor Pdf

Presenting the work of 30 diverse photographers from throughout Africa since 1940, this is the complete catalogue of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Author : Darren Newbury
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271098210

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Cold War Photographic Diplomacy by Darren Newbury Pdf