Women and Photography in Africa

Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges
Herausgeber: Newbury, Darren; Rizzo, Lorena; Thomas, Kylie

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores womenâ s multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781350136564
• ISBN-10: 1350136565
• Artikelnr.: 60003761

Autorenporträt

Darren Newbury is Professor of Photographic History and Director of Postgraduate Studies (Arts and Humanities) at the University of Brighton. He is the author of Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa (2009) and People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited. Photographs by Bryan Heseltine (2013); and co-editor of The African Photographic Archive: Research and Curatorial Strategies (2015) with Christopher Morton, and a Special Issue of Visual Studies on 'Photography and African Futures' (2017) with Richard Vokes. He was editor of the international journal Visual Studies from 2003 to 2015, and has curated exhibitions at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and District Six Museum, Cape Town. Lorena Rizzo is an associate researcher and lecturer in the Center for African Studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland). She has widely published on Namibian and South African visual and gender history. She is currently finalizing a book entitled Shades of Empire: Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa (forthcoming Routledge). Kylie Thomas is a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. She is the author of Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid (Bucknell University Press & Wits University Press, 2014) and co-editor, with Louise Green, of Photography in and out of Africa: Iterations with Difference (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ; 1. New lines of sight: Perspectives on women and photography in
Africa ; PART I: WRITING WOMEN INTO PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORIES ; 2. A working
woman's eye: Anne Fischer and the South African photography of Weimar women
in exile ; 3. Curating images, performing narratives: Women and photography
in the Usakos old location ; 4. Women photographers in Angola and
Mozambique (1909-1950): A history of an absence ; PART II: PHOTOGRAPHIC
DIALOGUES WITH THE PAST ; 5. 'Don't touch': Inheriting the Deo Gratias
Photo Studio in Ghana - an interview with Kate Tamakloe-Vanderpuije; 6.
Photographic representations of Tunisian women from the late 1940s to the
present: A transgenerational palimpsest ; 7. Some collaborative readings of
personal and cultural photographs from Southern Africa in the 1980s ; PART
III: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE ; 8. 'We own the night':
Youth and self-fashioning in Fatoumata Diabaté's Sutigi ; 9. Photographs
and memory making: Curating Kewpie: Daughter of District Six ; 10. Beyond
the frame: Zanele's Muholi's queer visual activism ; PART IV: FEMINIST AND
POSTCOLONIAL PRACTICES ; 11. Affective archives: Re-animating family
photographs in the works of Lebohang Kganye and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi ; 12.
Visual currencies: Performative photography in South African contemporary
art ; 13. Héla Ammar's Tarz: An affective and imaginative memory upon
dispossession