Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975 / Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Afonso Dias Ramos, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vicente, Filipa Lowndes, editor.

Ramos, Afonso Dias, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Africa, Portuguese-speaking--History--19th century.

Photography.

Photography--Africa, Portuguese-speaking--History--20th century.

Portugal--Colonies--Africa--History--19th century.

Portugal.

Portugal--Colonies--Africa--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Caught on Camera: An Introduction to Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa

Part I Charting the Empire: Knowledge, Control, Power

Chapter 2. Photographing Tropical Plants in the Late Nineteenth Century: Scientific Practices and Botanical Knowledge Production

Chapter 3. Stopping for the Camera: Photographs of the Portuguese Expedition to Bru, Mozambique, 1902

Chapter 4. Ethnographic Album of Angola: Overlaps Between Photography, Knowledge and Empire (1930s1940s)

Chapter 5. An Africanist Photo-ethno-graphy in the Portuguese New State (19281974)

Chapter 6. To See Is to Know? Anthropological Differentiations on Portuguese Colonial Photography Through the Work of Mendes Correia

Part II Showcasing the Empire: Propaganda, Media, Exhibitions

Chapter 7. Visions of Wildlife and Hunting in the Sportsmens Paradise: Exploring Photography from the Mozambique Companys Archive

Chapter 8. Industrial Landscapes in Colonial Mozambique: Images from an Economic Magazine

Chapter 9. To See, to Sell: The Role of the Photographic Image in Portuguese Colonial Exhibitions (19291940)

Chapter 10. Images of Angola and Mozambique in the Imperial Metropolis: Photographic Exhibitions Held at the Palcio Foz (19381960)

Chapter 11. Vision and violence. Black womens bodies on display (19001975)

Part III Holding the Empire: Political Violence, Labour, Struggle

Chapter 12.Images That Kill: Counterinsurgency and Photography in Angola Circa 1961

Chapter 13. Colonial War/Liberation Struggle in Guinea Bissau: From Personal Photographs to Public Silences

Chapter 14. Curating the Past: Memory, History, and Private Photographs of the Portuguese Colonial Wars

Chapter 15. Photographic Colonial Agency: The Work of Agostiniano de Oliveira at the Diamang (19481966)

Chapter 16. Our Nightly Bread: Women and the City in Ricardo Rangels Photographs of Loureno Marques, Mozambique (1950s1960s)./.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975.

ISBN:

9783031277955

3031277953

Publisher Number:

99994662650

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