ABSTRACT
This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary photography and practices of self-representation; and with the place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 5|20 pages
Forward, Ever Forward: a reading of Robert Harris, Photographic Album of South African Scenery, Port Elizabeth, c.1880–1886
part 10|16 pages
Re-covered: Wangechi Mutu, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and the postcolonial potentiality of black women in colonial(ist) photographs
part 12|9 pages
“I never didn’t take a picture”: on photojournalism and conflict – an interview with Greg Marinovich
part 20|6 pages
From myth to history: Ethiopia and Eritrea’s transformations in four photographic works
part 21|1 pages
The aesthetic and practical fields of excrementality of L’boulevard festival
part 22|1 pages
The aftermath of oppression: in search of resolution through family photographs of the forcibly removed of District Six, Cape Town