The African Photographic Archive (eBook, PDF)

Research and Curatorial Strategies
Redaktion: Morton, Christopher; Newbury, Darren

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000211382
• Artikelnr.: 60397252

Autorenporträt

Christopher Morton is Curator of Photograph and Manuscript Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK and Lecturer in Visual and Material Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. Darren Newbury is Professor of Photographic History and Director of Postgraduate Studies in the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

PrefaceList of IllustrationsList of Contributors1. Introduction
Christopher Morton and Darren NewburyPart I: Connected Histories2. Richard Buchta and the Visual Representation of Equatoria in the Later 19th Century
Christopher Morton
University of Oxford
UK3. The Missionary
the Diviner and The Chief: Distributed Personhood and the Photographic Archive of the Mariannhill Mission
Christoph Rippe
University of Leiden
the NetherlandsPart II: Ethnographies4. Redeeming some Cameroonian Photographs: Reflections on Photographs and Representations
David Zeitlyn
University of Oxford
UK5. 'Celebrating Life': The Construction of Photographic Biographies in Funeral Rites Among Kenyan Christians
Heike Behrend
University of Cologne
Germany6. The Chairman's Photographs: Political and Visual Economies in South-Western Uganda
Richard Vokes
University of Adelaide
AustraliaPart III: Political Framings7. Vernacular Recollections and Popular Photography in South Africa
John Peffer
Ramapo College of New Jersey
USA8. Searching for the 'Source Community': The Ronald Ngilima Photographic Archive and the Politics of Local History in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Sophie Feyder
University of Leiden
the Netherlands 9. Going and Coming Back: Curating the Post-Apartheid Archive
Darren Newbury
University of Brighton
UK10. Okombone: Compound Portraits and Photographic Archives in Namibia
Patricia Hayes
University of the Western Cape
South AfricaPart IV: Archival Propositions11. Versions of Fragmented History and (Auto)biography: On and From the Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Andrea Stultiens
independent artist from the Netherlands12. Vital Signs: 21st-Century Institutions for Photography in Africa
Erin Haney
George Washington University
USA and Jennifer Bajorek
University of Johannesburg
South AfricaBibliographyIndex