Global photographies : memory - history - archives / Sissy Helff, Stefanie Michels, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helff, Sissy, editor.

Michels, Stefanie, editor.

Series:

Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; Volume 76.

Image ; Volume 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Photography--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Image

Global Photographies

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript Verlag, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

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

Contributors.

Notes:

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OCLC:

1046610354