Women And Photography In Africa

Author : Darren Newbury,Lorena Rizzo,Kylie Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000185874

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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 : Robin Comley,George Hallett,Neo Ntsoma
Publisher : Witwatersrand University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1868144410

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Women by Women by Robin Comley,George Hallett,Neo Ntsoma Pdf

Women by Women: 50 Years of Women's Photography in South Africa showcases photographs of and by South African women. Editors Robin Comley, George Hallett and Neo Ntsoma made their selection from a range of what 75 photographers considered their most significant images of women. A rich and varied picture of women's lives emerges from the diversity in both content and types of photographic practice, including press photography, social documentary, fashion, lifestyle, sport, art and conceptual photography in chemical and digital format. The photographers include well-known names, established professionals, emerging talent and rising stars. In the captions and essays written by the photographers, we learn of their experiences in the field and the passions that drive them, and we hear their individual voices - at times enigmatic, intimate, passionate, incisive, activist. The women photographed in this collection comprise our national heroes, sport and fashion icons and strugglistas, as well as unnamed women from all walks of life: they are our mothers, sisters, aunts and daughters. Commissioned by the Ministry of Arts and Culture to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Women's March, Women by Women is the first publication to record and promote the positive contribution made by women to the art of photography in this country.

Author : Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African American photographers
ISBN : UOM:39076002025745

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Viewfinders by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe Pdf

Although photography is well along in its second century, until now virtually nothing has been written about the work of black women photographers. In this historical survey Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe presents an impressive selection of photographs, commenting on the careers of the professional and fine arts photographers, from the pioneers to the women of today. The book is divided into six parts, each "Overview" describing the triumphs and struggles of various photographers of different eras. The careful attention to detail is illustrated in the photographs of early twentieth-century photographer Elnora Teal and in the work of Eslanda (Mrs. Paul) Robeson from her travels throughout the world. It also offers glimpses of black Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s and of New York's Harlem during the same period. The photographs of contemporary photographers, among them Coreen Simpson, with her flamboyant style, and Fern Logan, with her strong eye, demonstrate the talent and style black women continue to show in the field of photography. This collection of photographs - meaningful, striking, handsome - will give pleasure to photo buffs, historians, and to anyone fascinated by this neglected but vital part of history.

Author : Catherine E. McKinley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620403549

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The African Lookbook by Catherine E. McKinley Pdf

Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' Pick A BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs-featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological-bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty-“poverty porn.” But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870–1970) of what is among the earliest photography on the continent. These images tell a different story of African women: how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. Featuring works by celebrated African masters, African studios of local legend, and anonymous artists, The African Lookbook captures the dignity, playfulness, austerity, grandeur, and fantasy-making of African women across centuries. McKinley also features photos by Europeans-most starkly, striking nudes-revealing the relationships between white men and the Black female sitters where, at best, a grave power imbalance lies. It's a bittersweet truth that when there is exploitation there can also be profound resistance expressed in unexpected ways-even if it's only in gazing back. These photos tell the story of how the sewing machine and the camera became powerful tools for women's self-expression, revealing a truly glorious display of everyday beauty.

Author : John Peffer,Elisabeth L. Cameron
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253008725

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Portraiture and Photography in Africa by John Peffer,Elisabeth L. Cameron Pdf

Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of photography, the social and political implications of changing technologies for portraiture, and the lasting effects of culture on the idea of the person depicted in the photographic image.

Author : A. Olusegun Fayemi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0971507635

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Windows to the Soul by A. Olusegun Fayemi Pdf

A book of photographs that explores and documents the realities of the lives of women from Africa south of the Sahara. Divided into seven sections, (Motherhood, Home, Work, Markets, Celebration, Elderhood and Beauty and Elegance), the reader is treated to a profusion of 175 outstanding and magnificent images comple-mented by an anthology of creative, inspiring and thoughtful poems by 15 contributors that capture the essence, humanity and wholeness and whole-someness of African women.

Author : Carol Beckwith,Angela Fisher
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1426204248

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Faces of Africa by Carol Beckwith,Angela Fisher Pdf

Presents a selection of full-color photographs from across Africa, covering topics including sense of place, the joy of being, inner journeys, patterns of beauty, rhythm from within, and capacity to endure.

Author : Richard Vokes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : International Defence and Aid Fund
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002312646

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Women Under Apartheid by International Defence and Aid Fund Pdf

UN pub. Photographic account of the living conditions and working conditions of black women and woman workers under Apartheid in South Africa R - contrasts the way of life between coloured and White Africans, family situations, re-human settlement, etc.; traces their historical political opposition and political participation in mass campaign political movements since 1913 as well as current trends in the struggle against Apartheid. Photographs and references.

Author : Kylie Thomas,Louise Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Advantage Media Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography of women
ISBN : 1599321505

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Voice of Beauty by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X001012110

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African by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ekow Eshun
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780500545164

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Africa State of Mind by Ekow Eshun Pdf

A vibrant photographic anthology that presents the work of a generation of image makers who are forging new visions of Africa. Africa State of Mind gathers together the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across the continent, exploring Africa as a psychological space as much as a geographical one. Both a summation of new photographic practice from the last decade and a compelling survey of the ways in which contemporary African photographers are engaging with ideas of “Africanness,” Africa State of Mind is a timely collection of those photographers seeking to capture the experience of what it means to “be African.” Presented in four thematic sections—“Hybrid Cities,” “Inner Landscapes,” “Zones of Freedom,” and “Myth and Memory”—each part presents selections of work by a new wave of African photographers who are looking both outward and inward: capturing life among the sprawling cities of the continent, turning the continent’s history into the source of resonant new myths, and exploring questions of gender, sexuality, and identity. With over 300 photographs by more than fifty photographers, Africa State of Mind is a mesmerizing survey of the most dynamic scenes in contemporary photography and an introduction to the creative figures making them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3958298818

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Margaret Courtney-Clarke: the Art of African Women by Anonim Pdf

Courtney-Clarke's three-volume photographic research into the creative spirit and harsh lives of women in modern-day Africa, with a fourth volume of commentary on the acclaimed series This collection summarizes Margaret Courtney-Clarke's (born 1949) 15-year journey, from 1979 to 1994, across South, West and North Africa to capture the artistic traditions of rural women through photographs, sketches and written observations. Originally published in three separate books between 1986 and 1996, these photographs have been widely exhibited, becoming influential for their nuanced treatment of identities shaped by both tradition and colonization. The Art of African Womenpresents the books Ndebele, African Canvasand Imazighen, reedited by Courtney-Clarke and redesigned, alongside a fourth volume of writings by Maya Angelou, Geraldine Brooks, David Goldblatt and Sean O'Toole, encompassing history, politics, sociology, anthropology and art history, as well as pages from Courtney-Clarke's travel journals, her book layouts and snapshots.

Author : Filipa Lowndes Vicente,Afonso Dias Ramos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031277955

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Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 by Filipa Lowndes Vicente,Afonso Dias Ramos Pdf

This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspects in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire in the African continent. The chapters span over two centuries and cover five formerly colonial territories – Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe – deploying a range of methodologies to explore the multiple meanings and the contested uses of the photographic image across the realms of politics, science, culture and war. This book responds to a marked surge of international interest in the relationship between photography and colonialism, which has hitherto largely overlooked the Portuguese imperial context, by delivering the most recent scholarly findings to a broad readership.