Ambivalent (eBook, ePUB)

Photography and Visibility in African History
Redaktion: Hayes, Patricia; Minkley, Gary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Contributors 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 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.

Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780821446881
• Artikelnr.: 58103928

Autorenporträt

Patricia Hayes is National Research Foundation SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Chair in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape in South Africa. She has published extensively on colonial and documentary photography in southern Africa. Gary Minkley is National Research Foundation SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Chair in Social Change in the History Department at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Recent publications include the coauthored Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Africa and the Ambivalence of Seeing (patricia hayes and gary
minkley)
PART 1 UNFIXING RACE AND VISUALITY: THE COLONIAL TEMPORARY
Chapter 1 Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and
Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Africa (isabelle de rezende)
Chapter 2 Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History
(patricia hayes)
Chapter 3 Unstable Forms
Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa (ingrid
masondo)
Chapter 4 The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South
Africa (gary minkley)
Chapter 5 Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in
Mozambique (drew thompson)
Chapter 6 Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre
of 1978 (vilho shigwedha)
PART 2 OSCILLATIONS: SURFACES AND DEPTHS
Chapter 7 Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi,
Northern Namibia (napandulwe shiweda)
Chapter 8 The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach (phindi
mnyaka)
Chapter 9 Photographing Aso. Ebì Of Surfacism and Digitality (okechukwu
nwafor)
Chapter 10 Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria (george
emeka agbo)
Chapter 11 Mirrors and Waters: the Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami
Wata Cults (jung ran forte)
An Expanded Milieu
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index