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(s): Sissy Helff, Stefanie Michels
Publisher: transcript publishing
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 210
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Table of Contents
Preface
Re-framing Photography – Some Thoughts
African Photography in the Atlantic Visualscape. Moving Photographers – Circulating Images
Elective Affinities? History and Photography
How to use Colonial Photography in Sub-Saharan Africa for Educational and Academic Purposes. The Case of Togo
Presentness, Memory and History: Thabiso Sekgala, “Homeland”
On the Circulation of Colonial Pictures. Polyphony and Fragmentation
Portraits of Distant Worlds. Frobenius’ Pictorial Archive and its Legacy
Reflexions on the Photographic Archive in the Humanities
Re-imagining the Family Album through Literary Adaptation
Public Rites/Private Memories. Reconciling the Social and Individual in Wedding Photography
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