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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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